Word: sullivanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captain Joe Noble and ex-captain Bob Foster, victorious against Cornell and Franklin and Marshall, are favored to maintain their unbeaten records. Noble, at 157, will face Tech sophomore John Sullivan, who is 1-1-1 in varsity competition this year, while Foster, at 177, meets junior Bob McCullough, who has a 2-1 mark...
...JAMES E. SULLIVAN...
...hurt, hesitant frown looked like a loser -the kind of character who can never quite cope with life's ludicrous little defeats. Wherever he slouched in front of an audience-last month on the bare bandstand of a Chicago nightclub, this week before the unforgiving cameras of Ed Sullivan's TV show-it seemed hardly probable that sad-sack Monologuist Shelley Berman could deliver...
...Here, Slob." Something about the way Shelley speaks-a profession of diffidence, a perfection of timing-suggests that everyone in the audience shares his feeling. And as simply as that, Shelley puts Mister Kelly's Chicago nightclub or Mr. Sullivan's fans in his pocket...
Shelley is willing to confess that the act he originally planned for himself was never meant for the likes of The Ed Sullivan Show. When he was discharged from the Navy as an asthmatic in 1943, he was 17, and he entered Chicago's Goodman Theater to study acting. "I was pretty damn good," he confesses further, but he would end up working at a Daytona Beach, Fla. hotel. ("I ran around with a volleyball bothering people who didn't want to be bothered...