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...middle-aged hero (Robert Shafer) is that most pitiable of men, a Washington Senators fan. An offhand mention that he would sell his soul for a long-ball hitter brings on Ray Walston, a crewcut, button-down Screwtape always willing to oblige. With a flick of the wrist, Walston turns paunchy Rooter Shafer into spring-legged, muscular Tab Hunter. Despite the fact that Actor Hunter holds a bat as if it were a canoe paddle, he hits .524 and steals 976 bases as the Senators roar in pursuit of the Yankees...
...field Hunter causes Ol' Debbil Walston no end of trouble by mooning about the wife he had to leave behind when he took on his new incarnation. "Wives," declares Walston woundedly, "cause me more trouble than the Methodist Church." In the longest-distance phone call in cinema history, he gets hold of Operative Lola (Gwen Verdon), still infernally seductive at the age of 172. Lola does not get what she wants, but the Senators do win the pennant and Hunter is mercifully transformed back into Robert Shafer...
...Said Edmund W. Tabell, top market analyst of Walston & Co., Inc.: "Prices are not determined by earnings but by supply and demand. Pension funds and institutions are buying right along. Last July, institutions stopped buying stocks and bought bonds, but today they cannot buy bonds at such attractive yields...
...planter (Rossano Brazzi). Marine Lieut. Joseph Cable (John Kerr) meanwhile engages in some Happy Talk with a native girl named Liat (France Nuyen), who dances around looking Younger Than Springtime on an island called Bali Ha'i. And the sailors, inspired by a Seabee named Luther Billis (Ray Walston), mill around on the beach, shouting that There Is Nothing Like a Dame. But the picture spends most of its time with the nurse, who tells herself that I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair, but then decides that I'm in Love with...
...because the situation is so insanely silly: knowing he can never make his premise hold water, Playwright Krasna (Dear Ruth, John Loves Mary) gets his fun out of the way it leaks. The laughs come also because Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy, and most particularly Ray Walston make a nimble trio as the husband, the wife and the fixer; while Rouben Ter-Arutunian provides a sequence of ingenious sets...