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Halbrook's arrival at Corvallis was no accident. As a 7-ft. 1-in. Portland high-school senior in 1952, Halbrook scored 1,035 points. During the N.C.A.A. championship tournament at Seattle that year, Halbrook was a conversation stopper as he strolled past gaping coaches in the lobby of Seattle's Olympic Hotel. Turning down "dozens" of offers. Halbrook chose to go to college in his home state. As an Oregon State freshman-by then 7 ft. 2 in.-Halbrook scored a record 450 points. As a sophomore, and grown one more inch, 20-year-old Swede Halbrook...
From this production, intricately and amusingly created by Dolly Niggemeyer, who kept the show's choreography at a top level all evening, comes the show's biggest stopper, a song called "Terrible, Terrible Crisis," sung by three, played by Samuel Gilflx, Richard Waldron, and George Spelvin, side-step to the praises of sex on the stage. Feek's three assistants, especially Bursk, who continually delighted the audience, also brought encores with an intricate soft-shoe routine in the first act. Further, they contributed heavily to "Judge a Book by Its Cover," a flashy ditty, extolling leg-art on the jackets...
...Kate's younger sister, bombastic Ann Miller is wisely given the song, "Too Darn Hot." And in the show-within-a-show, Miss Miller taps through "Tom, Dick, and Harry," one of those songs typical of Porter--unimportant in his score, good enough to be a show-stopper anywhere else. Regrettably, Miss Miller must share. "Always True to You in My Fashion" and "Why Can't You Behave?" with newcomer Tommy Rall. Rall, a dancer with a repugnant personality, is one of the film's few liabilities...
...Sturdy Stopper. Virginia's Highway Commission has bought 10,000 plastic traffic signs from General Tire & Rubber Co. for use on its roads. Lighter and tougher than steel, yet only one-eighth to one-tenth inch thick, the plastic signs withstand the attacks of man and nature better than metal ones...
...Train Stopper. Patachou (real name: Henriette Ragon Billon) never sang in public until five years ago, when she and her husband opened a small cafe next to the pastry shop. One night she joined a crowd of singing customers and they loved her. After that, she sang a little every night, walking from table to table, coaxing people to join in. One night Patachou saw a man cut off his friend's necktie for a joke. "I think this is most funny," she recalls. "I like the look of terreur on the man's face...