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Cameras to Corn. By week's end, detailed plans were well along for Nikita Khrushchev's arrival in the nation's capital. At 10 a m. next Tuesday, when he alights from the TU-114 propjet plane at Andrews Air Force Base. 15 miles southeast of Washington, the Soviet Premier will be welcomed to U.S. soil by President Dwight Eisenhower and other Government and military leaders. Metropolitan police. Secret Service and State Department security officers will line his route from the airport to Blair House, his official guest quarters across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House...
...crowd the rest of his busy, 13-day schedule in the U.S. Highlights: two banquets in New York on Sept. 17; an address the next day to the U.N. General Assembly; a luncheon in Hollywood, complete with stars and starlets; sightseeing in San Francisco; a visit to an Iowa corn farm near Des Moines and to the University of Pittsburgh; and two days of conferences with President Eisenhower, possibly at secluded Camp David...
Quarters for Corn. Few girls get a break from the jukebox trade these days; the quarters clink in the slot for the grinding corn of Fabian or Frankie Avalon. or the molasses-slow maundering of Johnny Mathis. Lola, who must settle for less, deserves more. She has been learning her trade, scrabbling at the edges of show business, ever since she sang Listen to the Mocking Bird at her home-town Y.W.C.A. in Akron 25 years ago. She was a gawky ten-year-old then, defiant of her parents' dislike of anything that smacked of entertainment. Today...
...interest in a novel called The Mermaid Madonna. No one should make that mistake. Author Stratis Myrivilis is probably the finest of living Greek writers. The Mermaid Madonna is the first of his books to come to the U.S., and even with its liberal dash of corn it introduces a writer who makes the true novelist's commitment, to life itself...
...Fair Lady, with Edwardian charm, The Music Man, with mid-American corn. and Flower Drum Song, with Oriental flair, make a trio of memorable musicals. Redhead cuts a nifty caper-and the fanciest footwork is Gwen Verdon...