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...Long Island Newsday Publisher Alicia Patterson, Broadway Producer Richard Halliday and his musicomedienne wife Mary Martin, retiring G.O.P. National Committee Chairman Leonard W. Hall (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), New York's freshman Republican Senator Jacob K. Javits, New York Herald Tribune President-Editor Ogden R. Reid, TV Comic Sid Caesar...
Pigeons have been carrying messages ever since a water-locked Noah sent a dove out to bring tidings of land. Caesar, campaigning in Gaul, used pigeons to carry news of his exploits to Rome. In World War I a homing pigeon named Cher Ami, on duty with the famed Lost Battalion, braved gunfire from both the enemy and the Allies, flew 25 miles in 30 minutes with an urgent message for Allied gunners, arrived at his destination wounded in a leg and a wing, saved the battalion. In World War II a pigeon called G.I. Joe flew countless missions...
...graduate of Courtois' fake-factory, a celebrated forger named Vrain-Lucas, later went into business for himself, and managed to convince some of France's finest scholars of the authenticity of hasty notes from Cleopatra to Caesar, Alexander to Aristotle and Lazarus to St. Peter, despite the fact that they were written in Old French...
...tippling racketeer in Sidney Kingsley's Lunatics and Lovers and signed him for two one-shot shows. After a season of high-flying spectaculars-some right out of left field -Liebman decided to return, with Hackett, to more fertile, familiar soil (other Liebman proteges: Danny Kaye, Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca). Liebman regards Hackett as the best "take" artist since Caesar, i.e., he reacts strongly to people and things. "With Buddy," says Liebman, "it's usually the 'take' that gets the laugh rather than the joke...
...Deal. With his father, the boy visited Woodrow Wilson's summer White House at Shadow Lawn, N.J., went on political outings to a Long Island inn near the Good Ground estate of Tammany Boss Charles F. Murphy, rode ponyback on Governor Al Smith's Great Dane, Caesar...