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...questionnaire also showed that some 20 men had been present for over a dozen performances. One man was even an usher at the strip palace for six months, and a question mentioning the ideal location of the theatre (half-way between the Charlestown Navy Yard and Harvard Square) was entered on a Geography 1 exam...
...year career to hold his Senate seat (TIME, June 19). Among city voters, his strongest competition was able Lynn U. Stambaugh, international-minded Fargo lawyer and onetime National Commander of the American Legion. But most of North Dakota's decisive rural vote was slated to go to Congressman Usher L. Burdick, 65, an isolationist who had learned better. The downpour which kept farmers from the polls was rain from heaven to Gerald Nye, who gathered in 38,082 votes. Stambaugh, contrary to most North Dakota dopesters, made a surprisingly strong race; he got 37,129 votes. Burdick, stuck...
Bill Langer's choice to beat Nye is Usher Lloyd Burdick, 65, for the last ten years a plodding, mild-mannered U.S. Representative whose hobby is collecting and rebinding old volumes of Wild West Americana. Usher Burdick is a pre-Pearl Harbor isolationist who changed his mind. A colorless radio speaker, lacking the verve and rabble-rousing fire of either Opponent Nye or Boss Langer, Candidate Burdick goes poorly in the cities. He is a great success with small groups of farmers when he rips off his coat and speaks in unvarnished and unrehearsed language. But some of Burdick...
...medical center, is also a one-man museum of imaginary maladies. He is wooed by redheaded Nurse Dinah Shore, whom he does not love, woos blond Nurse Constance Dowling, who loves his roommate. He does an uproarious rib of a Western musical, taking all parts, including that of the usher who keeps saying: "There will be a short wait for seats." Then Danny is drafted. En route to the South Pacific he sings the rapid-fire Melody in 4-F with the cold frenzy which only Danny Kaye can give it. Later he blunders into capturing some 20 Japanese...
Robert Pitkin nearly stole the show as the Mikado, and did himself justice as the usher in "Trial by Jury" and as Dick Dead-Eye, although the latter part required a bass which he was not able to supply. James Gerard, the romantic lead of the company and its only good tenor, does not quite look the part of the handsome Ralph Rackstraw or a Nanki-Poo. His substitute, Allen Stewart, who played the defendant in "Trial by Jury," is better looking but his voice does not have the required lyrical quality...