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...soon becomes clear that the air vice marshal in charge is scheming to take over the earth. Meanwhile the world that Roy knew is crumbling in other ways. He is told that the couple who raised him are not his parents. His marriage to a barmaid named Bess sours under the possibility that she may be his sister, as well as under her adulterous preference for the flight lieutenant from the aerodrome. The air vice marshal's plot fails, and Roy at length goes back to Bess (who is not his sister) and to the old ways...
...Mayor John V. Lindsay. New York, says His Honor, is a "fun city," and he and his merry men do things that way. Out in Central Park to dedicate a new Fountain Café, Lindsay and Parks Commissioner Thomas Hoving dragooned City Greeter Sharman Douglas and former Miss America Bess Myerson into rowing them around the lake ("Stroke, stroke, stroke!" cried Lindsay), engaged in an oar-slapping water fight with pursuing newsmen (who seriously considered sinking the mayor's "Ship of State"), captured a tiny snail ("Escargot," they announced), cooked an omelet, and toured the environs atop a "cherry...
...Plump Raisin. Pat's publicity problems were the least of the White House headaches. As the months ticked off, Social Secretary Bess Abell, Distaff Press Secretary Liz Carpenter and their combined staffs of seven became al most totally engrossed in nuptial arrangements, letting routine social functions pretty much run themselves. Mrs. Carpenter coped with staggering demands for invitations and information from all over the world. She also worked out an embargo system and a schedule of minutia-laden releases in order to control the flow of information. Last week's wedding-cake handout was replete with detail, down...
...years old, and it is hard to believe that he was about half that age when MGM in 1948 assigned him to compose, score and direct the music for a $3,000,000 Jeanette MacDonald movie. Since then, he has plucked four Oscars for scoring Gigi, Porgy and Bess, Irma La Douce and My Fair Lady. Now Previn is changing, and so is his career. "The boy-wonder thing is over," he mused last week. "I have decided to concentrate on conducting to the exclusion of the Hollywood thing...
...Funny Thing's" funniest things happened when Paar kept himself offscreen. Elliott Reid did an inventive impression of an entire convention, including chairman, delegates, Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley and the BBC. An old newsreel showed Bess Truman hopelessly trying to christen an airplane-bopping the nose a dozen times until a technician took pity on her and hammered the bottle apart. And in a technically adroit sequence, famous faces were shown orating silently as the sound track played Tony Bennett's rendition of If I Ruled the World. It began with Johnson, moved to Goldwater, then to such...