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...also recommended experimenting with relay service ("One waiter brings the pickled herring, another the borsch, yet another the main course, and so on"), so that no one would feel he was obliged to anyone for individual attention. This seemed hardly consistent with another of Literature and Life's ambitions-to speed up the service, which most of the 12,000 U.S. visitors to Russia this year discovered is a sometime thing (average breakfasting time: one hour...
...Blair House just in time to swap his tan suit for his dark suit and play host at a state reception of the Soviet embassy. The first U.S. President to cross the embassy threshold, Dwight Eisenhower led his lady and 31 other Americans in joining 23 Russians in caviar, borsch and shashlik beneath crystal chandeliers. Said Khrushchev of his trip to date: "I'm very pleased-despite the strong propaganda, a warm reception." "Had anything he had seen changed his prior conceptions about...
...Bongos & Borsch. To light up the hotel's vast lobby, gambling casino, nightclub and swimming pool, plus the 20-story structure from the outside, electricians had to string out the lights the length of almost four football fields and use more kilowatts than the same NBC lighting men once used to illumine Niagara Falls...
...synchronizing their lips with songs they had recorded in Manhattan to avoid technical hitches on the Cuban location. Producer Bill Harbach and his staff kept auditioning local talent, came up with bongo beaters, a singing quartet and a dancer named Tybee Afra who hails from the New York borsch belt. At the poolside near Gambler Meyer Lansky's cabana, in the lobby and the casino. Allen & Co. and Guests Lou Costello and Edgar Bergen rehearsed in doubletalk ("Did you put the bird in the creen?") to keep their gags fresh for the bystanders who would later form their audience...
CONNIE FRANCIS, born Constance Franconero, who broke into a network show with a kid act when she was four, later graduated to the Catskill Borsch circuit-the Concord, Grossinger's, Brown's Hotel. M-G-M Records liked her throaty, sob-ridden voice, changed her name and signed her up. Her first two singles-Freddy and Didn't I Love You Enough? are currently being followed by a bouncy number, Eighteen, and a sad-toned ballad Faded Orchid, which might go over with what the industry calls the "girdle...