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...Some of the surefire laughs in The Best Man, an election-year play about good buys and bad guys in presidential politics, went over bigger than usual one night last week at Manhattan's Morosco Thea ter. Like the moment in the first act when Trumanesque "ex-President Hock-stader" assured a prospective presidential nominee: "And for another thing, you're a millionaire. People trust you rich boys. They figure you've got so much money of your own you won't go stealin' theirs." Or when fat "Senator Carlin" cracked...
What really keeps things going on Rouben Ter-Arutunian's spare, strikingly lighted stage are the classic public combats between honest legislators and honest, honest lagos; the immemorial private confabs between men with one card up their sleeve and men with two; a burly Ed Begley and a determined Richard Kiley resisting the Devil; Kevin McCarthy's rabble-rousing; and the fanged drawl and deadly swoops of Henry Jones's Southern Senator. Advise and Consent never once cuts below the surface, but it does often get behind the scenes...
...esthetic perfectionist. There is Pound the economic crank, anti-Semite and Fascist apologist. There is Pound the expatriate bohemian, the discoverer, friend, advocate and ally of Eliot and Joyce, who got them into print. He begged, wheedled, scolded, scandalized others and scanted himself to secure bread-and-but ter money for them and for many another subsequently famed writer. In that role he was, as Horace Gregory once called him, "a minister of the arts without portfolio...
Epidemic. Jacksonville's Negroes have also been slow to catch up with the times. Sit-in demonstrations stirred up most of the South before Jacksonville even got a taste of them last winter, and the Jacksonville version failed miserably. Then, last month, in the middle of a lacklus ter summer, Jacksonville's Negroes were moved to try again. The demonstrators got no help from local whites, and tension mounted. A pair of Negro youths, running from the cops, accidentally knocked an elderly white woman through a plate-glass window; a white woman and a Negro woman got into...
...form ("I still can't get my feet together"), but soared 26 ft. 7! in. to break by 2| in. the Olympic record Jesse Owens set in 1936. Fighting for second place, Army Lieut. Bo Roberson, 25. a former Cornell halfback, was trailing Russia's Igor Ter-Ovanesyan when he got off the greatest jump of his life on his last try to hit 26 ft. 7| in. for a silver medal. Watching his record broken by the two Americans. Owens cracked: "Well, there goes another old friend...