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...part. Paul Benedict, a sort of anchor-man in this repertory group, gives the audience some good comedy as Alex, but I am disappointed to see how inflexible he is an actor. He adds a slight Scottish burr for the present occasion; otherwise he hasn't changed a whit from what he was in Waiting for Godot and Picnic on the Battle-field, other recent Theatre Company productions. A born comic like Benedict is of little use in repertory theater if he cannot adapt to new roles...
...Edward VII, Bertie changed his style of living not a whit, giving Britain the most colorful court it had seen since Charles II. If he skirted scandal, it was because no man alive better understood British upper-class tribal customs. When, during a divorce proceeding, the testimony of Lady Charles Mordaunt was read in court confessing that she had committed adultery with Bertie when he was Prince of Wales "often, and in open day," it proved embarrassing but not fatal, because Bertie had played his part honorably-visiting her Ladyship secretly and in a hired brougham in mid-afternoon...
...later), and his son Arthur, who was born in the Philippines in 1938. MacArthur made his eloquent farewell address to the Congress, testified before a congressional joint investigation committee. Both he and Truman continued to have their say -in tendentious statements, in books and in articles. Neither budged a whit from his position-and neither, probably, could ever be proved wrong...
Niederhoffer's comeback victory nearly duplicated his performance at the intercollegiate Championships. At that time Niederhoffer, who was odds-on favorite to capture the singles title, dropped the first two games to the Indians' whit Foster...
...Vickers, an experienced scrum half, will return to that position. Soccer player Sandy Whitman, out for his first season of rugby, will fill the hooker's slot. Doug Hall, Dick Schulman, Whit Lee, and freshman football player Steve Diamond play prop...