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...fact that Chicago is in the process of destroying Sullivan's works. Of the 92 Sullivan buildings once standing there, 66 have been demolished, mostly by developers who wanted to replace them with more profitable office buildings or parking garages. Some important Sullivan structures remain-the Carson Pirie Scott department store, for example. But wreckers are now at work on the last Sullivan office building in the Loop, the 13-story Old Stock Exchange, a landmark completed in 1894. Said a special mayor's committee: "It was economically and structurally unfeasible to continue to use the building." Mayor...
From the original Promised Land this week comes the first Israeli musical, To Live Another Summer-To Pass Another Winter, a lighthearted treatment of the generation gap as well as the struggle with the Arabs. The forthcoming F. Jasmine Addams is Carson McCullers' The Member of the Wedding set to music, and Truman Capote's The Grass Harp will come twanging back on the scene with Barbara Cook as the star. Still another musical revival is Candide, of 1956 vintage, with music by Leonard Bernstein and the totally ingenuous hero courtesy of Voltaire...
...Howells, he said, "told me that if I was prepared to be as unpleasant as most of the great conductors, I should become one. I did not want anything to do with unpleasantness, so I went into politics." ··· Muffin was missing, and Joanne (ex-Mrs. Johnny) Carson was beside herself. A doctor administered sedation, but Joanne still wandered up and down Sunset Boulevard searching for her three-pound, Yorkshire terrier. Enter Joanne's blind date, TV Executive Tom Tannenbaum, who was promptly pressed into service as a Muffin hunter. Some time around dawn they found...
...other talk-show hosts are nowhere near the complete man that Cavett is. As to their sex appeal-Griffin is a Boy Scout leader, Frost an ulcer-ridden, sweatless advertising executive, and Carson a dissipated shoe salesman...
There are times when Cavett envisions taking over The Tonight Show if Johnny Carson should ever retire. Then there are occasions when Dick feels like buying a long-term Eurailpass to oblivion. Running his show, he says, "is really like an actor being in repertory but where in one day?one performance?you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy. It's a satisfaction in one way in that you get to use all the arrows in your quiver, or strings in your bow, or bats in your belfry. But it's also very...