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Four months ago, as part of his crusade against smog, Abe Ribicoff, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, served the auto industry with a blunt ultimatum: unless the auto manufacturers agreed to install blow-by* anti-pollution devices on all 1964 models voluntarily, the Administration would ask Congress to compel them to do so. Last week the automakers went Ribicoff one better, decided to make blow-by devices standard equipment on all their 1963 cars and light trucks...
...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is put together as precisely as a fine watch by the jeweler of U.S. musicomedy jokesmiths, Abe Burrows. As the up-from-window-washer hero, Robert Morse is the funniest ployboy in the history of officemanship...
...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is put together as precisely as a fine watch by the jeweler of U.S. musicomedy jokesmiths, Abe Burrows. As the up-from-window-washer hero, Robert Morse is the funniest ploy-boy in the history of officemanship...
...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, Willie Gilbert; music and lyrics by Frank Loesser) is a light, bright spoof of corporate wheels and wiles, and its up-from-window-washer hero, Robert Morse, is a superlative, tousle-haired, triple-jointed comic wonder who could coax laughs out of Mt. Rushmore...
...Succeed succeeds chiefly by its light touch. Abe Burrows might have tossed satiric vitriol at the corporate image; instead, he paints a mustache on it. Bob Fosse might have whipped the dance chorus into the routine cattle stampede; instead, he stop-motions his dancers like mannequins in a shopwindow, and scatters them like parched, tormented acolytes around the ritualistic idol of an empty coffee machine in Coffee Break. Rudy Vallee cups his hands, megaphone-fashion, around collegiate Grand Old Ivy to give it just the kiss of the hops from Stein Song days, and the rest is a delectable kiss...