Word: showboating
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...Showboat' of my day, a full ship of the line," announces a ghostly voice, and the show is on. There is the sound of a champagne bottle cracking and metal scraping, followed by a splash, tugboat whistles, horns, and handclapping. As the noise recedes from the stands and the lights are doused progressively from the stern to the bow, the huge ship actually seems to move down the ways...
...U.C.L.A., a class is taking the nation's only college course in Berber. In a symposium offered by the University of Minnesota, Tennessee Williams and Actor Douglas Campbell are lecturing drama students aboard the university's air-conditioned showboat afloat on the Mississippi. And in the desert of southwestern Utah, 74 U.C.L.A. anthropology students and their professor are poking about the remnants of Pueblo villages and digging in mounds for arrowheads, bones and pottery. Edith Sanders, 17, from Beverly Hills, admits that she signed for Anthrop. 197 on a whim, but now she is enjoying...
...AMERICAN WIND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (June 5-Aug. 11) is the showboat of summer music. Its unlikely home: a 122-ft.-long, 30-ft.-wide converted coal barge. A tug tows this floating concert hall along the Ohio, Mississippi and tributary rivers. In the next fortnight, the A.W.S. will dock at and serenade such symphony-less cities...
Ohio River, Ky., Indiana University Showboat Majestic: The showboat will tie up at Louisville for a variety show, then paddle downstream to West Point, Ky., and Brandenburs, Ky., with Rip Van Winkle...
...Dauphine that has just swallowed a Cadillac, the hero tools home to the alley he lives in: hardly room to park. Then he takes half the quartier out for a spin; runs out of gas. Next day he drives to work. When the boss gets a load of that showboat parked next to his own heap, he fires the hero on the spot. Two days later, Dhéry gets a new job as a chauffeur: his boss is the mistress, who promptly locks the poor lunk in the trunk, drives by the wife's house and hollers...