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Pardee's dramatic victory came on his third and final attempt at the 6 ft., 9 in. height. The Crimson sophomore and arch-rival John Hartnett of Princeton had both cleared 6 ft., 8 in., with Hartnett holding the edge on fewer misses...
Never has a pinkie been crooked with more elaborate Lahr-di-da, or sexagenarian toes been more agile in the choreography of cowardice. In one panic, Lahr scrambles halfway up the proscenium arch and hangs there, glaring down in 20-foot-high dudgeon at the scoundrels who have treed him. Throughout the musical, he emits those lecherous gurgles, dying squawks and goosy yelps that used to be the cheek-in-tongue counterpoint to vaudeville, and burlesque. What makes Lahr the king of clowns is, above all, his masterly word-and-action timing, as when he off-handedly tosses...
...Buster Browns. The President also last week flew to St. Louis to open that city's celebration of its 200th birthday. From the airport he moved in a heavily guarded motorcade to the Mississippi river front to view a partially completed $10 million, 630-ft.-high steel arch that is rising in the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, a National Park Service project...
...grey-haired Harold Macmillan, was at his side, putting a steadying hand beneath Churchill's arm. Macmillan, now 70 and barely recovered from a serious prostate operation last fall, no longer carries himself with the ramrod posture of a Guardsman. Together, the elder statesmen walked slowly beneath Churchill Arch and into the members' lobby: two great national figures moving into the sunset glow of history...
...family, where Nanny's always Nanny and nobody dares call her Nan, Pamela Frankau has performed what must by now be almost a ritually required act for all female British authors. Despite this, the Weston children's summer opens onto satisfyingly sunny uplands of the past. Predictably arch and fey and charming, the characters are nevertheless conveyed with a kind of loving concern that can make even a relative seem momentarily fascinating...