Word: trios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major networks resumed their old, over-ballyhooed Sunday-at-8 fray this week with two new opponents: Groaner Elvis ("The Pelvis") Presley, 21, v. Musicomedienne Mary Martin, 43-the two biggest audience-pullers today. Elvis, doing the second of a $50,000 trio of shows for CBS and Ed Sullivan, posed a fancy threat, but Mary, starring in Born Yesterday (Hallmark Hall of Fame, NBC), was still TV champion. There were no hard feelings backstage either. "Elvis is jus' darlin','' drawled Texas-born Mary. "Besides, I can't be mad. My mother's name...
Yale's heralded trio of Jack Bogan, Tim Hogen, and John Kingston were not the story in this meet. Rather, less highly-regarded Al Friedman and John Slowik turned in the performances which spelled the end of Crimson hopes for a third consecutive undefeated season, and 20th and 21st consecutive wins...
Actually, Crimson strategy, which called for breaking up the Yale high-scoring trio, worked, as both Jim Schlaeppi and Dave Norris finished ahead of Kingston, behind Bogan and Hogen. But Friedman, running one of his best races of the season, finished right behind Norris, and Slowik unleashed a tremendous finishing kick in the last 100 yards to nip Captain Dave McLean by a couple of steps for the eighth position. Ralph Perry finished right behind McLean to complete the varsity scoring...
...forced to work with his character's huge and clumsy exterior. But Fonda too possesses a lot of talent, and he demonstrates just how much of an art an actor, naturally trained to move smoothly, can make of moving without grace. The least satisfactory of the starring trio is Mel Ferrer, who displays more stiffness than grandeur. As portrayed by Oscar Homolka, the Russian commander, General Kutuzov, has considerably more moral force, particularly in a scene where he thanks God for the delivery of his country from danger after Napoleon withdraws from Moscow...
...number five, McCurdy tentatively listed junior Dave Norris, one-third of last year's powerful two-mile trio. The other third, besides Reider, is Ralph Perry, who has been sidelined temporarily with a pulled muscle, but when recovered will undoubtedly edge his was into the top five...