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...black sweater. Frankie and Peter had an urgent mission: to stage a mammoth Inauguration Eve entertainment gala in the capital's National Guard Armory. Frankie was fairly glutted with ideas, as he had hinted upon his arrival: "It's really tremendous when you think Ella Fitzgerald is coming from Australia. I could talk to you for three hours and still not be able to give you all of our plans!" As the plans were laid, some several thousand fat cats were to be ensconced in the armory's $100 seats and in 68 ringside boxes priced...
Died. Barry Fitzgerald, 72, the gift of Dublin's Abbey Theater to Hollywood; following a brain operation; in Dublin. From 1917 to 1929 Fitzgerald (real name: William Joseph Shields) led a double life as a bookkeeper for the Dublin Board of Trade by day, by evening an Abbey player in ever-fatter roles. Then famed Playwright Sean O'Casey wrote The Silver Tassie, and Fitzgerald opened it in London as a fulltime actor, quickly became the vogue in brogue. His Hollywood zenith came in 1945, when he won an Oscar for his supporting role as a cantankerous...
...letters took up matters of such moment. John Fitzgerald Kennedy wrote in praise of the campaign efforts of Democratic National Committee Chairman Henry ("Scoop") Jackson; Brother Bobby Kennedy had words of praise for California's nonpolitical Community Service Organization for getting out the Spanish-speaking vote. Sam Goldwyn, Gore Vidal, Jack Paar and William Saroyan all ticked off TIME on matters of personal privilege. Last month eight writers and critics (James Baldwin, Jason Epstein, Lillian Hellman, Alfred Kazin, Robert Lowell, Norman Podhoretz, Lionel Trilling, William Phillips) collaborated in a letter in defense of the literary reputation of Fellow Writer...
...downtown Democratic clubs and patronage offices, rang out in the lilt of High Hopes and Walking Down to Washington among the New Year's Eve dancers at Chevy Chase Club and in the jammed hotel ballrooms. Along Pennsylvania Avenue, workmen rushed new tiers of spectator stands for John Fitzgerald Kennedy's inaugural parade, and the requests for tickets reached blizzard stage...
After lunch Kennedy kept up his sales talk through the daily golf game (no player, Rooney penciled in the scores), later let his visitor sit in on private talks with Lyndon on overall congressional tactics. As a special treat, Rooney was even granted a peek at tiny John Fitzgerald Jr. (his impression: "I think he looked like a helluva baby...