Word: flacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Project Hope (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.).* Films made in the islands of Indonesia record the contributions of the U.S. hospital ship Hope to medical progress in that 1 The Joey Bishop Show (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). PREMIERE of a new series in which Bishop plays a flack...
President Kennedy was busy, so the owners of the Summit, a brother team named Larry and Bob Tisch, settled for the last best thing, Mayor Robert Wagner, and a monster cocktail party with a flack-picked guest list. The kings, if any, have yet to make their appearance, the chauffeurs' waiting room has given way to a drive-yourself rental agency, and as for the late Mr. Bagby, he was not even replaced by Muzak. The one link to the Waldorf era: Claudius Charles Philippe, for many years the Waldorf's shrewd general factotum, is now the Tisches...
...performer could ask for better treatment than that which you gave me. It is regrettable therefore that I find it necessary to correct you on one point. Your article generously gives me credit for possessing two flacks. Being in the public eye, I am aware that I am fair game, and if I have two flacks the public should know about it. The fact is, however, that only one of the flacks your reporter noticed in my apartment is my own. The other was lent to me by Dr. Leon Page of Coolidge, Ariz. My own flack had unfortunately broken...
...flack is a plastic-bottomed job with the four-inch base so common to American-made flacks. It has, of course, three speeds but no reverse, and if a mistake is made, there you are. I frankly was surprised to find that your man had noticed the flacks at all. In the past few months I have had very little need for flackery and had put the flacks in a closet along with my stults, which I haven't used for years. Incidentally, I do have four stults...
Apart from his talent for picking good material and good talent, he knows how to keep alive shows that are too sickly (or, occasionally, too good) to attract audiences by themselves. His own best flack, Merrick uses up pressagents like paper towels. For Clutterbuck, his first show, he had "Mr. Clutterbuck" paged in Manhattan's busiest hotels. For the benefit of the 1,600 newsmen boring themselves to death at Princess Grace's wedding, Merrick skywrote above Monaco, WHEN IN NEW YORK, SEE "FANNY." Some of his schemes are ordinary (he scattered sawdust and cowboys under the Destry...