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...went on to win the flag, although not a world championship. Musical director Mark B. DeVoto's orchestra had me worried at first, with a listless and ragged overture, but loose ends were tucked in as the first act progressed and after the interval there was plenty of spirit, spit and polish, high-lighted by Andrew Schenk's percussion and a pyrotechnic. DeVoto had occasional trouble with the choruses of daughters, pirates and policemen; sloppy diction messed up some numbers, and the orchestra periodically submerged the singers. Handling a company as large as this one is, however, no mean feat...
...proud that his present wife is an indirect descendant of Napoleon. Lerner would be unlikely to cross a street unless the trip made reasonable sense, but Loewe once flew with a friend from Los Angeles to Vienna just to taste again those wonderful Little Wiener Wrsteln, (Vienna frankfurters) that "spit in your mouth." Then he got on another plane and flew back to California. It was an epically impractical journey, but it did, however briefly, take him home...
Common reaction: "You're on the wrong ticket. We don't vote Republican." To which Bagwell replies: "Shake hands with me anyway, won't you?" A few men drop Bagwell's broadsides to the ground, but this year very few spit on them (an old trick that prevents the broadsides from being picked up and used again). "That's a good sign," says Bagwell. "Two years ago they dropped our pamphlets like snow." It is not uncommon for a worker to sidle up with a wink, fold back his lapel and expose a concealed Bagwell...
...refusing to supply the Governor with side boys) he was known as "The Big E."† His strapping (6 ft. 4 in., 230 lbs.) frame never seemed to stop swelling with rage when he uncoiled from behind a desk to bawl out some wilting subordinate. But last week the spit-and-polish admiral (Annapolis '24) was as subdued as a brand new swab jockey hauled up before his first Captain's Mast. Erdmann had barely settled down in his Marin County, Calif. home to enjoy his retirement from the Navy when a federal grand jury indicted...
After nightfall, Mobutu organized a dependable detachment of military police into a flying wedge and hustled Lumumba through the milling soldiers to an army truck. But along the way, Congolese reached past the guards to kick and spit on Lumumba and rip his flapping white sports shirt to shreds. As Lumumba rode off, General Lundula sneaked out the back way aquiver with fear, and with all insignia of rank carefully removed. At Lumumba's official residence, Ghanaian troops put the Premier under heavy guard. Next day, Mobutu's men raided Lumumba's headquarters, arrested 26 staff members...