Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gene Kelly was among the choices for Man of the Year but because of his schedule, he was forced to turn it down, Dale Olsen, Kelly's press agent said yesterday. "Gene would have loved to come but he just couldn't," Olsen said...
Meyer Mishkin, Dreyfuss's press agent, said yesterday, "If it was the first award he had been offered this year he would be more excited. But I am sure he is flattered...
...court, the Celts' management juggled the team's roster yesterday, trading forward Fred Saunders to the New Orleans Jazz and signing free agent guard Ernie DiGregorio to a ten-day contract after league commissioner Lawrence O'Brien announced that Celtic forward Kermit Washington's suspension would be lifted February...
...under, has denounced the record. Irate callers in several cities have persuaded radio stations to stop playing it. At first, Newman, who is 12 in. too tall to qualify for the Little People, laughed off the criticism. Now he's not talking at all, leaving his agent to insist that the lyrics are intended merely to ridicule prejudice of all kinds. If so, Newman seems to have fallen short of the mark...
...most interesting chapters, naturally enough, involves the Kennedys, and it will not be pleasant reading for their hagiographers. In the early '60s, the Justice Department, under Attorney General Robert Kennedy, began investigating an old family friend, Publicist Igor Cassini, for his supposed failure to register as a foreign agent. Cassini, who wrote a gossip column for the Hearst papers under the name Cholly Knickerbocker, was suspected of illegally representing the Dominican Republic and Dictator Rafael Trujillo in the U.S. Perhaps because of his family's friendship with Cassini, Bobby Kennedy pursued him with extraordinary ferocity, afraid that...