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...night after the Democrats' $100-a-ticket wingding (TIME, Jan. 25), Coe walked into the hotel suite of Musical Comedienne Carol Channing and her husband, Producer Charles Lowe, expecting to have dinner with them. But Lowe was on the phone to the White House. The President's secretary was asking whether Charles and Carol and Comedian George Burns could drop by for dinner. George's suit needed pressing and Carol remembered that she was supposed to have dinner guests of her own-but everybody made...
...entertainers ate in the upstairs dining room with Jack and Jackie Kennedy, Lee Radziwill, British Ambassador David Ormsby-Gore and his wife. Then they were joined by a passel of Kennedy relatives and the Kirk Douglases. Cinemactor Douglas, like Carol and Burns, had entertained at the Democratic gala. Carol and George did a few comedy routines, Douglas presented a song that he sang when auditioning for a Broadway show 20 years ago (he failed to get the part), and most of the Irish present joined in for a chorus of The Wearing of the Green...
...That's what made it different," Carol told Coe later. "So often only the entertainers entertain and they feel apart, like freaks. Not with the Kennedys...
...made about Brother Edward, to be called 'I Was a Teen-Age Senator' ") with tributes to the President, and introduced a parade of first-rate entertainers. Yves Montand sang his French songs, Spain's Antonio danced with his flamenco ballet company, George Burns and Carol Channing joked. Comedienne Carol Burnett called the President "a regular pussycat." The big hit of the show was the New York City Ballet, doing excerpts from Stars and Stripes...
...Harvard Glee Club has recorded on a loyal label a handsome election of the more worth while --Volume I (Cambridge Records CRS-401), for instance, includes Vaughan Williams arrangements of the Gloucestershire and Yorkshire Wassails, "Lo, How a Rose." Gustav Holst's Personent Hodie, the Sussex Carol and "The Holly and the Ivy." The Glee Club, recorded in Memorial Church, sings under the direction of G. Wallace Woodworth, and performs with its usual huency and competence...