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...stage, is a stocky, rather intense-looking fellow. He got that look, he explains, during his many years as a "rootless, wandering writer . . . clawing and scratching along a sheer surface and holding on tight with raw fingers"-years in which he worked as bellhop, elevator operator, movie usher, teletypist, warehouse handyman and verse-spieling waiter in a Greenwich Village bistro...
President & Señora Perón helped usher in spring by attending a regatta at Tigre, where photogenic Evita shocked the decorous by appearing in white slacks and a new hairdo, with hair slicked back into a knot at the nape of the neck and parted on the left instead of in the middle...
...seats outside the cheering section for any post-Dart-mouth engagement in spite of the fact that application deadlines may have already passed. William J. Bingham '16, director of the H.A.A. indicated last night that the tickets men would thus receive would be better than any thing an usher would have to offer after evicting a couple from Section...
...Saturday last we were seeking Scott Stadium, scene of a football game. We halled a provender of football programs (25 confederate pesos by volume). "Man," he said, "ah reckon ah don't rightly know whar 'tis." Over the hill we came upon the Stadium. An usher stood in a grey uniform, "where's section A?" we asked. "Man, ah reckon ah don't rightly know, but you're on a one-way street. How'd you all get in heah...
...Impresario Bing had cannily saved his Sunday punch for the final week. It was the dramatic reunion of Bruno Walter and his old Vienna Philharmonic, parted since the Anschluss of 1938. One afternoon the 84 Viennese, in shabby lounge suits, trooped into Usher Hall for rehearsal. When Walter entered from the wings, they clapped happily and beat their bows on their instruments. Said the boss: "It is good that we meet again. It is high time, for I am getting a very old man [he was 71 last Monday]. . . . Now, gentlemen, we begin. Achtung!" It was like the old days...