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...years of breakfast-table chatter with some 15,000 headliners on TV and radio, Tex and Jinx McCrary have learned the ABCs of interviewing. In their latest inquisition, a five-a-week daytime TV show called Close-Up, they have overextended themselves, and the result is a sort of compost: a pinch of Ralph Edwards' This Is Your Life and a watered-down heap of Mike Wallace's Night Beat (which McCrary says is "a carbon copy of one of my old shows"). Last week the McCrarys snagged a performer who had turned Wallace down cold: Negro Singer...
...dinning a new language into the U.S. ear. It is something like English, but it has a grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation of its own. It grows out of a rich compost of dialects heard at Lindy's and the Stork Club, in the hominy-grits-and-corn-pone belt and around Hollywood and Vine. It is calculatedly lowbrow: and out of the mouths of M.C.s, comedians, interviewers, children's hosts, singers and announcers, it has become a powerful influence on American speech. Critic Clifton Fadiman calls it Televenglish...
...state of mind; and as such, it is not bounded by thirtysix-thirty and the Rio Grande. Indeed, the bestselling 1952 novel by Edna Ferber, on which this picture is based, bellowed from the bookstalls that Texas in modern times is a microcosm of materialism, a noisome social compost of everything that is crass and sick and cruel in American life. Texas bawled like a branded dogie when the book was published, not without reason; if Author...
...grey-flannel-suited dirt farmerette from New Jersey named Doris Duke, better known as a money-marinated tobacco heiress and sometime jazz pianist, bitterly argued the merits of floribunda hedges and compost heaps in a Manhattan pretrial hearing. Her legal adversary was a sometime play producer named Luther (A Sleep of Prisoners) Greene, also something of an agrarian reformer, who claimed that Doris owed him $2,500 for applying his Greene thumb to her "tragically outmoded" 2,500-acre patch of flora in exurban Somerville. Flower Girl Duke countered that Greene was trying to make her "forget...
Oranges & Pennies. Author Dallin, an old Russian Social Democrat who fled the Bolsheviks in 1921 and has lived in the U.S. since 1940, has doggedly forked over a mountainous compost heap of material (main sources: court and tribunal transcripts, memoirs of ex-spies), covering networks in Switzerland, France, Germany, Canada...