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...widow with three daughters to look after (two are step-daughters), she brings home a fair chunk of sugar-cured bacon. But she always has. She was sister Eileen in Wonderful Town, and she won a Tony award as Daisy Mae in Broadway's Li'l Abner. Early in her show business experience, she was taught how to go for the green. As a dappled-taffy blonde out of rural Pennsylvania, Tenafly, N.J., and the Juilliard School of Music, she appeared on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts years ago, hoping to win the evening with a long...
Great-Great-Grandfather Oliver Vanderbilt helped found the mighty Bank of Manhattan; Grandfather Joseph joined Abner Doubleday in introducing baseball; and Cousin Cornelius manipulated his vast holdings in stocks and railroads to become one of America's richest early millionaires. But Amy's favorite forebear is Great-Great-Grandmother Vreedenburg, who staved off bands of Tory marauders singlehanded during the Revolutionary War, having plunged the vast sums of gold she had into her copious bosom...
...secret to Flanagan's successful obscurity is an immense modesty that makes him the most retiring man since Li'l Abner. "I play the way I do," he says quietly, "by listening to other pianists. I suppose I'm playing differently now than I did a few years ago-but that's just because I don't practice as much as I used to." Such fondness for the shadows makes him the perfect sideman; last year he made 25 jazz albums, none of which listed him as leader. Among new recordings, three of the best...
...half time, Dallas was tied in the second half, narrowly escaped defeat in the regulation four quarters when Oiler Quarterback George Blanda, trying to pass to a wide-open receiver, hit himself on the helmet with the football. At the start of a sudden-death overtime, Texan Captain Abner Haynes unthinkingly elected to kick off, and into the wind at that. But the Dallas defense held, and Tommy Brooker eventually ended the 77-min. marathon with a 25-yd. field goal...
Representatives John V. Lindsay (R.N.Y.), Charles McC. Mathias (R.Md.), and Abner W. Sibal (R.Conn.), who won their soats in strongly Democratic districts, took a critical look at the Kennedy administration at the midway point. Their chief quarrels: a serious "lack of candor," a "deliberate attempt" not to tell the whole truth...