Word: flacks
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...Saint-Just (1767-94) was Robespierre's most zealous flack during the French Revolution, organized the Reign of Terror for all heretics, in the end lost his head himself...
...that his wife's social secretary Letitia (Tish) Baldrige will have a proper send-off next week when she leaves her job to become a kind of flack-of-all-trades for Joe Kennedy's Merchandise Mart in Chicago. Tish, who was social secretary to David K.E. Bruce when he was U.S. Ambassador to France, and who worked in the same capacity for Clare Boothe Luce when she was U.S. Ambassador to Italy, was a ball of fire in the White House. But a ball of fire could not very well assume the role of anonymity that Jackie...
...deals still go on, of course, with advertisers making direct contributions to stagehands, prop-men and even actors to slip their products before the cameras. Most stars still refuse to have any part of it. "I tried to get Cary Grant in on a tie-in," says one Hollywood flack, "but he just looked at me and said, 'Who needs...
...could plow words together like that but a Pentagon flack? What in the wild blue yonder is he talking about...
...Shirley Booth has been caught in an NBC series called Hazel, based on the Saturday Evening Post's cartoon maid. She place-kicks footballs and tweaks the ears of her boss's clients. The Joey Bishop Show (NBC) presents its deadpan comic star as a small-time flack who is not as slick or tricky as the world around him. But the whole show is a little too cold and clanny...