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...doubt be a commercial success, it is not a smooth, finished musical production. There are many slow spots, and many, many bad gags. But the things that are good are very good. A girl named Rose Marie sings a couple of songs in the grand musical comedy tradition, Silvers' sidekick, Jack Albertson, is a very funny man, and Mielziner's sets are tops...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: The Playgoer | 9/27/1951 | See Source »

...betweens" were Connie Schaff, a member of this year's New York University team, and Ed Gard, of last year's Long Island University team. Rounding out the little group was a hard-faced gambler and ex-convict (armed robbery) named Salvatore Tarto Sollazzo, 45, and his sidekick, Robert Sabbatini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big Money | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

...written by Scripter-Producer Lamar Trotti and played by Tyrone Power, the PT-boat officer who becomes a major of guerrillas is a stock movie hero. He is equipped with a comic sidekick from Pocatello (Tom Ewell), a Tommy gun that never needs reloading, a romance that blossoms in warmest Technicolor during interludes of song & dance. The book's love story has been revamped and overblown: its Spanish heroine (now French, presumably to accommodate the studio's contract with France's Micheline Prelle) is married to a wealthy Filipino planter but conveniently widowed in plenty of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 27, 1950 | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...Fuqua-ing out loud," lamented the Sage, Flick-ing his cigarette and Storck-ing his stove. He gave Orders to his sidekick for a Stahura Shookey and settled back with this Oriental brew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fading Oriental Sage Sees Army Mired in Local Paddy | 10/21/1950 | See Source »

...Arms. On Lucas' behalf, Douglas and McAdams were using the same tactics they had used to get Douglas elected in 1948. Ever since 1942, when both tried unsuccessfully to buck the Kelly-Nash machine, "Spike" McAdams, a onetime professional bantamweight boxer, had been the devoted sidekick of ex-Professor Douglas. Like Douglas, who lost the use of his left arm while fighting with the Marines on Okinawa, McAdams, now a successful attorney, had lost his in action with the Navy at Leyte. Their 1948 technique had been to scour the state in a jeep, stopping at factories, filling stations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Voices Over Illinois | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

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