Word: abner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Abner-on Broadway and in the film-she was a monadnock of sex as "Stupefyin' Jones." In The Marriage-Go-Round, she won a Tony award for standing on the stage dressed only in a towel and begging Charles Boyer, as a brilliant professor, to unite his mighty mens sana with her massive corpore sano. She brings the same sort of ingenuous sexuality to her role as a TV robot, managing the difficult trick of being comical and at the same time alluring enough to start the Colossus of Rhodes off his blocks...
Connecticut's only Republican Congressman, Abner Sibal, lost narrowly to the lawyer he had beaten in 1960, Donald J. Irwin. Four New Jersey Democrats defeated Republican incumbents, giving that state its first Democratic congressional majority (eleven seats to four) in 52 years. Louisville's former Democratic Mayor Charles Farnsley, a lanky eccentric who affects custom-made ante bellum clothes but is nevertheless a popular middle-reader, unseated Republican Incumbent Gene Snyder, who angered the district's 78.000 Negroes by voting against the civil rights bill. Across the nation, a dozen other conservative Republicans also toppled. Among them...
...consider its Bell Labs to be the finest industrial-research establish ment anywhere. A.T.&T. has become so much a part of the American scene that it is at once a source of envy and admiration and a butt of jokes. Says Cartoonist Al Capp, whose Li'I Abner delights in needling Mother Bell: "In this country, if we don't like our wives, or even our Government, we can change them. But have you ever tried to change your phone company...
...commanding figure of the evening was clearly Paul Hoffman, whose Abner was butchy, lovable, and believable. Although a bit stiff now and then, he displayed a grace and skill that surpassed his All-Ivy performances as a guard last fall. Another compelling character was Curt von Kann's Marrin' Sam. Like Mr. Hoffman, Mr. von Kann looked the part, and he played unerringly on its many humorous possibilities...
Altogether Li'l Abner at Winthrop is a triple whammy of a show. About the only unpleasant comment I can make is that the remaining performances are nearly sold out. The cast really should consider extending...