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...fears that people think she is dumb as well. She is forever polishing her English, syllabically going over new words again and again: "Edification, feasible, feeesible, sì? That will be feasible. Good." She has trouble with some names, like Kerrygront and Clargable, and she says Barbara Stan-wich as if it came between slices of bread. She orders "Scotch on the stones" because it still gets the laugh it got when she first made the mistake...
Alas, once a straw man always a straw man. The onetime scarecrow of The Wizard of Oz meets an advertising mogul played by Fritz Weaver with Mephistophelean glee. Stan, as the love-smitten dean of women (Eileen Herlie) calls him, becomes a be-spatted decoy for the "Fodorski Foundation." At sea in adland. poor rich Stan is eventually faced with a moral question: Should he throw the big game to save his academic integrity...
Sophomores Bill Bond, Stan Abrams, and Bob Seelert have come up from last year's strong freshman team which compiled a 6-1 record and took six out of seven matches from Yale...
...FOCUS (Stan Getz; Verve). For reasons obscure, jazz musicians these days have a yen to go classical. This latest attempted fusion of longhair and brushcut involves seven pieces for string ensemble by Composer-Arranger Eddie Sauter against which Saxophonist Getz pins his softly twining improvisations. The string pieces are in fact little more than an assortment of film-style clichés, but Getz's solos-soaring, tumbling and melting-are worth the price of the album...
...over a year, California Comic Stan Freberg has been delighting U.S. radio audiences with zany commercials featuring the so-called "Chun Kingston Trio" in such far-out "folk songs" as Oh, Handle Me Down My Walking Chow Mein. Last week, turning to television, Freberg outdid himself on an hour-long "Salute to the Chinese New Year." In his shrewd parodies of familiar television fare, Freberg so amused the critics that they genially forgave him for turning the program into one long plug for Chinese chow, capped by the slogan: "Buy two cans of our chow mein...