Word: gentlemens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...triumph surprised no one--at least no one who has heard of court tennis. The game, which bears only a very vague resemblance to regular lawn tennis, requires a fiendishly complex and expensive court. Since Yale and Princeton both have to practice in New York City, well-conditioned Harvard gentlemen with access to the only court in New England have consistently outpaced them...
...Joseph Albert Fields, 71, Broadway playwright and brother of Lyricist Dorothy (Sweet Charity) Fields, a one time screenwriter who in 1940 teamed with Jerome Chodorov to adapt stories for the stage, turned out such comedies as My Sister Eileen and Junior Miss, later wrote the librettos for hit musicals Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (with Anita Loos) and Flower Drum Song (with Oscar Hammerstein); of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...
Solemnly pledging not to use "state facilities of any sort" to keep himself in power, Alabama's Governor George Wallace last week turned the state house of representatives into a convention hall to introduce his hand-picked gubernatorial candidate to a crowd of cheering partisans. "Ladies and gentlemen and fellow Alabamians," said Wallace, "I present to you my wife...
...however inadequate Goldman's play be, Director Noel Willman has somehow contrived to make is worse. Olde English folk songs ("God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" etc.) are piped over the loudspeaker after every blackout, and stage movement is held to a static minimum. Unfortunately, radiant Rosemary Harris as the dowdy, embittered Queen looks even better than she did as Ophelia two year ago; while cherubic and smooth-skinned Bruce Scott, late of the Merv Griffin Show, fails to convince anybody that he's Prince John, who, as the text repeatedly states, is the victim of massive acne...
Died. June Walker, 65, who flapped her way to fame in 1926 as the first Lorelei Lee of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, demonstrated her versatility by playing everything from a brassy prostitute in Waterloo Bridge to a doting mother in Blue Denim; of emphysema; in Sherman Oaks, Calif...