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Business & Pleasure. The China-born Shaw Brothers have only one thing in common: a desire to make movies and money. Run Me Shaw, short and stubby, handles finances, avoids the limelight. Run Run Shaw, tall and thin, is a mixture of Barnum & Bailey and Todd-AO. He willfully holds conferences at 2 a.m., buys and sells talent like cattle. He is the master of the Asian hard sell. When The Brothers Karamazov, starring bald Yul Brynner, played the Shaw circuit, Run Run organized a head-shaving contest with a prize for the shiniest pate, started a teen-age craze...
...desperate hours of Jack Kennedy's battle with Estes Kefauver for the Democratic vice-presidential nomination in 1956, Kennedy's good friend and fellow Roman Catholic, John Bailey, Connecticut Democratic state chairman, circulated a memorandum among top Democrats at the Chicago convention. Wrote Bailey: "There is, or can be, a Catholic vote," and the way to make the most of it, he insisted, was to put Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy on the ticket.* Kennedy narrowly lost the vice-presidential nomination, but set to work within weeks to build toward the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination...
...political reality of 1960 is that Jack Kennedy's starting point in his race for the Democratic nomination is his ability to deliver the heavy Catholic big-city vote much the way that John Bailey laid it down in 1956. A corollary is Kennedy's argument that he has thereby placed Democratic bosses and kingmakers (most of them Catholics, some decidedly cool to Kennedy) in a dilemma: if they do not nominate him, the Democrats stand to alienate the Catholic vote-a situation that Vice President Nixon might be tempted to exploit by turning to a Catholic vice...
...Reynolds decided to bring out Camels in 1913 in a package decorated with a very sick-looking animal. Recalls former Director R. C. Haberkern: "He was atrocious. He had pointed ears, his head was bad, his feet looked like sweet potatoes." The problem was not solved until the Barnum & Bailey circus came to Winston-Salem, and the Camel people got a look at their first dromedary, Old Joe. Old Joe was promptly photographed, drawn for the package. (When Reynolds tried to change the package slightly in 1958, it got so many complaints that it had to switch back...
Died. Felix Adler, 62, Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus clown who kept U.S. children laughing for 50 years as he waddled about with his bulbous, red-lighted nose, played the Big Bad Wolf while pigs he trained danced on their hind legs around him; after surgery; in Manhattan...