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...watch the milking; to the front yard, for a talk with Mother Landmeier and her healthy youngsters; to the barnyard, where Weatherman Clint Youle spoke of the crops and elements ("In Georgia and Virginia, the pecans are doing pretty well"); and too frequently to tireless Eddy Arnold, who will twang out a li'l song at the drop of a cornball. The chief trouble with the show, in fact, is that it is too city-slick; it needs more hay, less...
...Beautiful Sea (Shirley Booth, Wilbur Evans; Capitol LP). Mostly ordinary show tunes by Arthur Schwartz (music) and Dorothy Fields (lyrics), but Actress-Singer Booth puts a few of them over with a fine, plaintive twang that helps explain the success of the Broadway production. Best tunes: I'd Rather Wake Up by Myself, Lottie Gibson Specialty, both sung by Booth, and Coney Island Boat, sung by the chorus while Booth at the same time sings In the Good Old Summertime to form one of those two-headed duets (e.g., You're Just in Love, from Call Me Madam...
...Rotarians gathered in Seattle for the 45th annual convention of the world's largest service club, a back or two was certainly slapped. Total strangers called each other by their first names without let or hindrance. But the names were called in accents that ranged from the flat twang of the Western plains through Teutonic gutterals and mellifluous Urdu to the cool precision of Oxford English. And they weren't all Tom and Harry. There were Karls and Kims and Bongs and Phyas and Mohammed Alis and Yoshinoris and Joaquins and Chaunceys as well. Their identification tags bore...
Personality: White-haired and warmly blue-eyed, Wilson (5 ft. 10 in.) is quiet and reserved, speaks slowly (with a Midwestern twang), thinks fast, although he is not given to snap decisions. He once accepted a challenge by fast-talking Walter Reuther to a public debate, argued him to a draw. In his office he works between two desks with several briefcases at his feet and a couple of phones at his elbow. Wilson knows every part of the G.M. empire, often unexpectedly calls a junior executive in outlying plants. He works around the clock, forgetting the time, goes home...
...what architecture might or should do. When he is not tramping around an excavation or arguing with contractors, he can usually be found hard at work in his office-a big (6 ft. 2 in., 210 Ibs.), rumpled figure in shirtsleeves. He talks everyday American with a New England twang, and runs his firm like a football team. He quit school early and came up the hard way. He has very little time for play. In his hurry, singlemindedness and success, he is a character out of J. P. Marquand...