Word: spelvin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last couple of years, Pegler has largely confined himself to innocuous columns about George Spelvin, a Peglerian prototype of an average American: grumpy, antisocial and suspicious as a kulak. George still has a small, eccentric following, and chances are that he (and Pegler) will be kept by some papers even though he has been dropped by Hearst. But the demand is likely to be small. By week's end, the Hearst papers had received only a handful of letters and a few phone calls protesting the loss of their onetime titan...
...performance, I wish I could say nothing. The direction, by a gentleman whom, for purpose of argument, I'll call George Spelvin, was not visible to the naked eye, and the acting, with three exceptions, was atrocious. The three were Ellen Jameson (Wilson's girl, Scarlett) who, a Putney girl herself, managed to give her ingenue role a certain amount of real emotion; Susan Stockard (Peter's sister Suzy), who plays a too-much-too-soon high school girl with wacky charm; and Pete Foster, a Leverett House janitor, whose impersonation of himself is a stroke of consummate artistry...