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...having its stars-Morse and Rudy Vallee-still on hand. In the female roles, Virginia Martin has gone off to Little Me and Bonnie Scott to have twins, but the new girls-Joy Claussen and Michele Lee-are adequately brassy and ingenuous. But if this is luck, Writer-Director Abe Burrows gives it a hand. He has a chart in his pocket that tells him the exact hour and minute that any given number or scene begins. Deciding to check on, say, the / Believe in You sequence, he pops into the theater at 10:39, and if anything is slipshod...
...railroads have as colorful a history as the 111-year-old Illinois Central, whose 6,466 miles of track run like steel spines down mid-America from Chicago to the Gulf Coast. Young Abe Lincoln was a lawyer for the I.C. for seven years. Civil War generals such as the Union's George B. McClellan and the Confederacy's P.G.T. Beauregard were once officials of the line. The real-life Casey Jones was an I.C. engineer at the turn of the century: "Casey's daughter fell on her knees / 'Mama, mama how can it be / Papa...
Musicals are often the bane and sometimes the boon of Broadway's existence. The coursing humor of Abe Burrows and the kinetic energy of Robert Morse's performance help to make How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying one of those rare musicomedy triumphs of form over formula. The belly laugh is the convulsive vogue at A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, where Zero Mostel, lewdly assisted by clowns and houris, is pillaging the comic genius of Plautus to vulgar and insane perfection...
...remains for both the Republican candidates to overcome the great, vote-getting name of Abe Ribicoff; he is favored to beat Seely-Brown, and he might well carry Dempsey along with him. In that sense, a story doing the Connecticut rounds is appropriate. Alsop, pulling a switch on Seely-Brown's potholder campaign, is passing out Band-Aids with his name imprinted on them; other candidates are passing out G.O.P. cookbooks. An elderly lady brewed a Republican stew, took it off the stove with a Seely-Brown potholder and badly burned herself. She put an Alsop Band...
...elected four years later by 246,000 votes, the biggest margin on record in a Connecticut gubernatorial contest. Says Ribicoff of Seely-Brown: "Who knows him? Go around and ask people. They know who I am. They never call me Mr. Ribicoff. They call me Abe because they like...