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...this show, to be sure, there are the required number of stately showgirls with whole gardens in their hair, the remembered number of semi-nudes descending the staircase. And as of yore, the flesh is willing; but the spirit is weak. The spirit, in fact, has just about vanished. The songs have no lilt, the lyrics no verve, the sketches no crackle. The dancing has its bits of color and movement, but never the slightest distinction. In such feckless fandangos, the better performers-Billy De Wolfe, Harold Lang and Helen Wood-are largely wasted, while most other performers only make...
...retiring President Harold W. Dodds, 67. Two other famed prexies, Harvard's Dr. Nathan M. Pusey and Yale's Dr. A. Whitney Griswold came to honor Dodds with solemn praise, but the occasion also had its mortarboard merriment. Spoofing Princeton's miasmic weather of yore, Yale's Griswold asserted that four Princeton presidents had expired within five years back in the 1700s. Then he quoted from a letter, hopefully quilled by Princeton's trustees to a presidential prospect in 1766. The missive's gist: Don't let our weather scare you; those other...
Gang and lately a TV sportscaster, sniffed at the plush-lined genteelness of today's game. As ex-Manager Frisch sees it, baseball training camps nowadays "are no more than country clubs without dues." Other evidence of baseball's decline from its rigors of yore: "In my day there were no rides to and from the park. You walked-and if you were caught riding it cost you 25 bucks . . . When they wanted a new manager, you were told simply to 'get outa here-you're fired!' Owners are more polite nowadays; they announce...
...years later the three buddies reunite in their favorite saloon and are shocked to find that their boozy camaraderie of yore is dead as yesterday's glass of beer. Their strained efforts to rekindle brotherly love first produce boredom, then brotherly loathing. Kelly has degenerated into a Broadway fast-buck man who manages a double-dealing prizefighter; Dailey has overblown himself into a slobbish, ulcer-ridden TV idea man; Kidd, the papa of five of them, runs a crummy Schenectady diner specializing in "Cordon Blue" hamburgers...
...picturesque way of tipping. In a restaurant he will fold a five-dollar bill into a tiny ball of paper and hand it to the headwaiter with the suggestion: "Here, put that in yore holler tooth." Guesses about his fortune vary. One friend estimates it at around...