Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sharing the bill in the Broadway debut of Liz's estranged husband. Crooner Eddie Fisher, 34. was Frankie's ex-fiancée, South African Dancer Juliet Prowse, 26, who displayed vast areas of skin and even more gall. She pranced onstage as a barely garbed Joan of Arc and slithered her way through a song that pictured the saint as a call girl; then she turned up in some Egyptian gauze and launched into Cleo, the Nympho of the Nile, ending with a belly dance that would have fazed Farouk. Snorted one of the critics giving...
...Hearst's Examiner gave the newcomer a qualified editorial greeting: "It cannot and won't attempt to compete with us in our traditional role as San Francisco's and Northern California's No. 1 newspaper. Welcome to our shore." The Los Angeles Times dismissed the debut in two paragraphs back in the business section. Later, its management chortled over how many Los Angeles stories the immigrant had missed...
...copies-half of which went to subscribers by mail. At 10? a copy, the Western Times (every day but Sunday) costs twice as much as its Manhattan parent -and so far is about one-third as big. By eliminating all news of purely East Coast interest, it made its debut at a spare 32 pages. At week's end it was down to 20 pages, a slenderization due in part to the defection of first-blush advertisers (the Western Times carries both national and Western accounts...
...Galina Brezhnev, a tall, striking blonde of 18, who could well turn out to be the Kremlin's answer to Jackie Kennedy. While Papa toured collective farms and industrial plants, Galina stole the show in her dazzling French dresses, Italian spike heels, and huge, dangling earrings. Making her debut on the diplomatic circuit, she completely overshadowed Nikita Khrushchev's daughter Rada, wife of Izvestia Editor Aleksei Adzhubei, who was also along on the trip. In contrast to Galina's exhibition of haute couture, Rada "left the impression,'' sniffed one Yugoslav, "that she does not consider...
...musts. First there was the spectacular opening of Manhattan's new Philharmonic Hall; then off to Washington for the premiere of Irving Berlin's new musical, Mr. President; then back to town and the Maisonette Room of the St. Regis for something on the cool side-the debut of Pianist Peter Duchin, 25, son of the late Eddy Duchin, whose soft-toned renderings of pop classics were the rage with the last generation's carriage trade. Among those on hand to launch the new chip were Peter's godparents, former New York Governor and Mrs. Averell...