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Bombay State's stringent prohibition law was annulled just for Tito, so that his party could bring in whisky and wines. Before a special twelve-car, two-locomotive train carried the visitors the 850 miles to New Delhi, a pilot train went ahead to test the track. Standing on...
Winthrop Bows to Adams
Big & Tuneful. Both Medic and Satins and Spurs (telecast in color) proved first-rate. The spectacular (a word detested by everyone at NBC, except the publicity department and President Pat Weaver) was big and tuneful. The book (by William Friedberg and Producer Liebman) contained the usual musical-comedy eyewash: Betty...
Sorrow & Pleasure. A few moments later, Nelli began her toughest assignment, Aïda's great aria from the Nile Scene. Toscanini demanded that she sing a long, difficult phrase in one breath. "I know," he had said earlier, "there is not a soprano today who does it. But...
The businessman in the fiction of the '20s and '30s not merely seemed a boor and a menace: he was scarcely a real human being. He was a full-time symbol, unable to buy a new necktie without illustrating "conspicuous consumption,'' or to fall in love...