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...tip-off to the whole show comes in the Second Act when a man named Paul Valentine skips around the stage singing "My Fatal Charm." That this number and Mr. Valentine do not have charm and, indeed, are almost loathsome is not a disaster. But Miss Irra Petina, the show's leading lady, is likewise unblessed. Along with her strong voice, Miss Petina projects a chill which seems to come right from the heart. Although even a Shirley Booth couldn't salvage On With the Show, Miss Petina estranges the audience just a bit further. Her co-star, Robert Wright...
Near the bottom of the program comes the line "Axel Diensen. . . Alfred Lunt," the first tip-off to the pre-curtain speculator that this might not be the crisp nonsense he expects. Then the curtain goes up and it is clear that Mr. Coward and Mr. Lunt are equally dubious about this Diensen fellow. Diensen, it turns out, is a Minnesota railroad baron who, by the author's admission, doesn't fit into the life of either Boston or Belgrave Square. Diensen doesn't seem at home on the stage of the Colonial either...
...cliff-hanging ("If we cause a single nightmare we have failed in our purpose")-Should a program end with Commander Corry facing a ray gun and certain death, the TV camera moves in to show a faint smile on the hero's face. The smile is a tip-off to his moppet viewers, says Moser: "They know that Corry can get out of this spot -that he's got a plan...
...they would win this test. Stevenson's own Illinois voted 45 against seating Virginia, 15 for. But by the time the roll passed Pennsylvania, it became clear that the Kefauver-Harriman bloc did not include the bosses. Pennsylvania voted 57-13 for seating Virginia. That was the tip-off to other states that a vote for the motion was a vote for Stevenson. Pro-Stevenson leaders frantically worked up & down the aisles, urging delegates to switch. After a wave of corrections and switches (including Illinois), the vote was 615 for seating Virginia, 529 against...
...student cadets the "inside story." Simply, the story was that if a student does not put down a dollar deposit, he will be listed as having no interest in the ROTC program and this fact will be detrimental to his being accepted into the Advanced Course. This was the tip-off straight from the Commanding Officer. This situation shows poor psychology and logic on the part of the Air Science department. Students are actually being forced to attend the dance or at least to pay for a ticket. The detachment is only a small part of the AROTC reserve organization...