Word: windedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Organ recital given Sunday afternoon in Memorial Church by seven Harvard, Wellesley and Radcliffe students. General level of performance surprisingly high. Best playing done by James Armstrong (Mendelssohn's Second Sonata) and Kerala Johnson (the long-winded B-Minor Choral of Franck). The others need to work for greater rhythmic...
It all ends a bit better than that, and on the way, Author De Vries has punned the reader to a pulp, winded him with laughs, and done what only truly funny writers can do: exhibit man, frail and vulnerable, with such true ludicrousness that what starts as a belly...
Mr. Wonderful (book by Joseph Stein and Will Glickman; music and lyrics by Jerry Bock, Larry Holofcener and George Weiss) recalls the wag who wondered what would have happened historically had Plymouth Rock landed on the Pilgrims. For Mr. Wonderful much less suggests Nightclub Artist Sammy Davis Jr. finally landing...
As a member of the first group of Nieman Fellows at Harvard in 1938, Reporter Lahey used the year to round out his scant formal education and "cure the worst damn inferiority complex about college you ever saw." Salty Ed Lahey became a hit with the faculty, was cultivated by...
In his two years as president of the National Broadcasting Co., eupeptic Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver made the newspapers almost as often as NBC's program timetables. He pushed the so-called "magazine concept" of selling TV ad time to several sponsors per show, popularized the hour-and-a...