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Anything called a hootenanny ought to be shot on sight, but the whole country is having one. A hootenanny is to folk singing what a jam session is to jazz and all over the U.S. there is a great reverberate twang. Guitars and banjos akimbo folk singers inhabit smoky metropolitan crawl space; they sprawl on the floors of college rooms; near the foot of ski trails they keep time to the wheeze and sputter of burning logs; they sing homely lyrics to the combers of the Pacific...
...serious actor and no longer merely a situation comedian, he is surrounded by competing actors schooled in the Method, but he holds his own with unquiet confidence, bellowing, as he always has: "I'm the world's greatest." Entering his new career with appetite akimbo, he has already completed another film, Gigot, for which he wrote the story himself, and in Manhattan last week he was at work on still another, Requiem for a Heavyweight...
...Kimball, however, still harbors hopes. Adopting her ship's captain, arms akimbo stance, she declared last week, "I'll do anything in the world to save the Wharf. I'm not going to move...
...scoops. CBS thought it made history by its coverage of the Kennedy auto cavalcade, with shots of young Jack's fingers tapping on the dash board. NBC proudly claimed that it got the best shots of Kennedy leaving his hideaway cottage after being nominated (ABC was there, lenses akimbo, but its cameramen somehow followed a phony tip and were crouched in waiting by the back door, which never opened). Actually, little newsbeats here and there were not what mattered. More than the others, it was NBC that held the steadiest eye on the center of the story...
Turning up for work after their usual Monday-Tuesday weekend, editors, writers and researchers pushed through the revolving doors with eyes akimbo, walked across serpentine tile inlays in the lobby floor. "It looks like the walk at the edge of the beach in Rio," said Senior Editor James Keogh...