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LIONEL HAMPTON'S VIBRAPHONE Originally a drummer, Hampton first experimented with the instrument during a 1930 studio session with Louis Armstrong. This is his custom-made brass model. Estimate...
...ring he is trying to expose. In an early scene, smugglers are shown flying aliens into the country; when the Feds close in on them, they jettison their human payload. (An identical scene appears two years later in Secret Service of the Air, the first in Ronald Reagan's Brass Bancroft series.) Wong turns globe-trotting sleuth to learn the identity of the smugglers' Mr. Big (who turns out to be a Mrs.) and is nearly gang-raped on slave ship of illegal immigrants. When four guys fight in a dispute over her honor, she stands by, paralyzed. Scriptwriters...
...have dreamed for years of the day when I could hold the brass pot and call it my own and now at long last that day has arrived,” Robbins added...
...skein, The Johnny Carson Show; then, in 1957, the gig that earned him fame, an ABC daily quiz program, Who Do You Trust? The Q&A portion of the show was negligible; it was Carson's fast, easy banter with his guests that got the attention of the NBC brass. Jack Paar, whose eventful reign as host of The Tonight Show had also begun in 1957, was itching to do a prime-time chat fest. The network courted Groucho Marx, Bob Newhart and others, but settled on Carson, who took over in the fall...
...things matter as much to a leader's success as the impression that he or she makes in the first 100 days on the job. So say Thomas Neff and James Citrin, top brass at executive search firm Spencer Stuart, in You're in Charge--Now What?, which presents a detailed "8-point plan" to help aspiring CEOs navigate that crucial phase. Neff and Citrin interviewed dozens of executives while conducting their research, and they illustrate each point of their plan--from shaping a management team to crafting a strategic agenda to engineering corporate culture--with real-life examples...