Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shakeup in varsity performances can be partly explained by Van Cortlandt Park itself. Poor footing and the gruelling "Heartbreak Hill" are a challenge to runners used to the smooth and rolling Franklin Park course. And the unusually warm, dry day may have caused many of the unimpressive varsity performances. But inability to master Van Cortlandt could be a serious problem, since both the Heptagonals and IC4A meets will be held there--and against several teams for whom the Park is a "home course...
...came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone...
That the play and its performances are admirably smooth and finished doesn't change the fact that the characters are a bunch of unlikely people calcuated to entertain. But then this is the business of the theatre...
...Hampshire Statehouse -is "Governor" to all but a few close associates, Persons is "Jerry" to nearly all Washington, "Burt" to his family, and "Slick" to old Army friends. (There is a dispute about whether the "Slick" came from the stuff he put on his hair or from the smooth way he handled Congressmen as an Army legislative liaison man.) Where Adams was President Eisenhower's closest professional colleague, Major General Wilton Persons, U.S.A. (ret.), is one of General Dwight Eisenhower's oldest, best friends...
...lead in this production was Hal March, who was making his legitimate stage debut. Tackling the role in which Paul Douglas scored on Broadway, he proved he could do more than fire questions at TV contestants in isolation booths. In fact, he gave a smooth and consistent performance. His only serious lapse came near the close of the first act, where he had a heart-to-heart talk with his young son and reminisced about his dead wife. This is hard to pull off, but the writing is so fine that it still emerged as one of the two most...