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...males in the cast give generally the most impressive individual performances, with Bruce MacDonald given highest honors because he cannot only sneer and hop, but sing. Benjamin Neilson, as the other Earl, is not troubled by this latter difficulty, but carries himself well and obscures none of the humor, which is all that counts. The Lord Chancellor, Arthur Waldstein, has an even less prepossessing voice, and occasionally his froggish hops seem uncertain and feeble, but he does manage some of Gilbert's speedier lyrics, all the while conveying a most Chancellorial wizenedness. Perhaps less sure of himself on stage...
...chain stores and supermarkets, have already felt the press of the Government's burgeoning program. Wholesale grocery sales in Arkansas have dropped about 14%, and grocers blame at least half the drop on the surplus-disposal program. "We think the free groceries have cut into business." says W. Earl Fitzgerald, executive secretary of Michigan's Food Industry Committee, "but we distribute them as a civic gesture...
...intramural league, faces Yale's Davenport College. The Puritans feature a strong running attack with fullback Ken Holmes running well on a combination of straight bucks and cross bucks. Guard Tom Pulvino, who played JV football for two years, leads a strong Puritan defense. House athetic secretary Earl Silbert reports, however, that Davenport is "very strong...
...Leningrad station the Porgy company filed through a welcoming committee of "giant men and shabby ladies" like a flock of gaudy parakeets uncaged into a grey wilderness. Earl Bruce Jackson (who plays Sportin' Life in the opera) had holes cut in his gloves so that all could see his rings, and he waved regally. He also kept brooding about the brown tails, with champagne satin lapels, that he hoped to wear for his planned Moscow wedding (to a cast member) and thus get into Leonard Lyons' column...
Britain's First Sea Lord and chief of its naval staff, Admiral the Earl Mountbatten, 56, was upped to Admiral of the Fleet, top rank in Her Majesty's Navy...