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...professorial gang chatter amicably about their experiences on any of a number of network shows. If when they get home their children are slumped before the visage of Ed Sullivan, they can take succor in the knowledge that only hours before they occupied his place. And as the last acrobat on Ed's stage performs his final somersault, they can hope, without undue optimism, that their progeny will look up, focus on grim reality for a moment, and say: "Gee, Dad, we thought you were great...
...ACROBAT ADMITS (284 pp.)-Alfred Grossman-Braziller...
...like to go," said one, "because European boys are so much easier to lead than Harvard men. And they cheer louder, too." Another added that European cheerleading is "much more continental and less athletic. Over there," she said, "a cheerleader is a lady of refinement and not a circus acrobat...
Gloria gets paid every time a network commercial is repeated, makes almost $150,000 a year (equaling TV's Jack Paar), lives in Beverly Hills and drives a 1958 Lincoln Continental Mark III. With her four-octave range, which she claims matches the eerie range of Peruvian Vocal Acrobat Yma Sumac, she can take off from low C below middle C and soar to C above high C. But this endowment also drives Gloria to despair: nobody wants to hear her sing straight...
...critics, some of whom were sure that Callas was simply losing her voice. Said the Paese Sera: "Let's be truthful. She started badly and got worse. Her voice appears threatened by changes in timbre and variations in the lower registers. In the high registers Callas is an acrobat who lacks breath...