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...lights on an electronic computer. No event could be considered a success without the appearance of at least one Kennedy-and, since there were more than enough Kennedys around, there were few failures on that account. The inaugural committee threw a huge affair at the National Gallery to welcome Bess Truman, the Cabinet wives, the Kennedy and Johnson ladies, and other women of importance; the hall became a rustling sea of mink and jewel, bouffant hairdo and beaded gown. Over at the Statler-Hilton, House Speaker Sam Rayburn hosted a party for Lyndon Johnson; at the Mayflower, Young Democrats danced...
...till every inanity glitters, and with a magic that in the very act of murdering old musicals can bring them back to life. Today's grim musical dramas are not as funny targets, nor has Carol as fine a touch for them, but her Switchblade Bess, at least, has inspired moments. If much of Show Girl rather smacks of family jokes, it is at any rate a well-known family-Marlene Dietrich, Sophie Tucker, Judy Garland-and full of family bluntness. And in Show Girl's freshest idea for a skit, Miss Channing and Munshin play the Lunts...
...people, in ponderous and chesty style. In the midst of the second act party scene, the producers have inserted anachronistic "entertainments" sung by some of opera's grandest names-Giulietta Simionato and Ettore Bastianini wander through Anything You Can Do, Leontyne Price sings Summertime from Porgy and Bess. "Gershwin?" quips the introductory dialogue. "But Gershwin isn't even born yet." The gag, unfortunately, dies with the first listening...
After nine weeks of intermittent babysitting in Manhattan, Grandpa Harry Truman and Grandma Bess were sad and glad to be relieved of their duties. They hustled little Clifton Daniel, 3, and his brother William, I, down to a pier where the boys' parents, Margaret Truman Daniel and New York Timesman Clifton Daniel Jr., disembarked from the liner United States after a European tour...
...have piano lessons." At Central State College in Ohio, Leontyne discovered she had a voice, went on to Juilliard, where Critic-Composer Virgil Thomson heard her and asked her to appear in his opera, Four Saints in Three Acts. From there she joined the touring revival of Porgy and Bess and married her leading man, Baritone William Warfield...