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Scoring from First. "A manager's job," says Stanky, "is 90% public relations and 10% managing. My responsibility is to entertain the gentlemen of the press, radio and television, make up the line-up card, then fall asleep on the bench and let the boys play. After a while, some player wakes me up and says, 'Skip, we just won the game 5-4.' " There may once have been a manager who ran his team that way-the description somehow sounds familiar-but it certainly was not Eddie Stanky...
...command decision to play down both The Great Society and the Viet Nam war and instead to fill up Bucky's bubble with lighthearted exhibits was made three years ago when the theme, "Creative America," was chosen. Said USIA Exhibits Director Robert Sivard: "These exhibits are meant to entertain, not to educate or advertise our wares." To work out the designs that were to be placed on escalator-linked platforms leading up to the suspended space-scarred Apollo capsule, the USIA picked a group of sophisticated young designers known as "the Cambridge Seven...
...these days is directed toward social action in the community. The St. Louis association, for instance, has started a letter-writing campaign to persuade the Missouri legislature to enact a fair-housing law. In Cincinnati, under a Y.W.-sponsored program social workers go to old-age nursing homes to entertain and teach lonely inmates recreational skills. Y.W. members now run a number of local Job Corps, Head Start and Neighborhood Youth Corps programs. In another tie-in with the federal antipoverty program, 27 Y.W. centers are opening their residences to 1,800 girls just out of the Job Corps...
...dame, and the U.S.O. thought so little of the idea that he had to pay his own way. Even so, Metropolitan Opera Tenor Richard Tucker, 52, insists that he made almost as big a hit as a lot of the Hollywood starlets who have gone to Viet Nam to entertain the troops. Back in Manhattan after a two-week singing tour that took him from Saigon to Danang and included presiding over a couple of Passover Seders, Tucker said the boys thoroughly enjoyed the arias from Pagliacci and Tosca. "They're a very, very intelligent caliber of boys...
...next time he shows up, the mayor (Henry Fonda) is too frightened to kill and too tired to run. Anxious only to rebuild Hard Times and make it a good place for business, he gets his wish when Keenan Wynn jounces into town with a wagonload of cuties to entertain the local miners. Pretty soon the whole town swings like a pair of saloon doors, and gold and whisky are as plentiful as hossflies...