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...doughty Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, 80, steamed by train into Pittsburgh, hit his typical stride by riding from his Pullman sleeper to the depot on a baggage cart. After being pushed some 300 yds. (the length of eleven passenger cars) by a Pennsylvania Railroad cop and a Pittsburgh Symphony flack, Sir Thomas met the usual pack of newshounds, barked with a keen pitch for the headlines. As for the "lollipops concerts" that he planned to conduct, it would be the "soothing, soporific" music that he customarily plays for encores. Said he: "It places no strain on the mentality...
...retired light colonel), he was in flight school on Dec. 7, 1941. After a series of courses in radar and electronics at Harvard and M.I.T., Pilot Seamon was assigned to a photo-mapping outfit. At the controls of a PB4Y-I, he and his crew dodged flack and fought off enemy fighters to make a map for the invasion of Guam...
...Skelton, George Gobel, Jimmy Durante and, for the past twelve years, Jack Paar. Although Paar has announced that Douglas will be dropped when his contract runs out this month ("You have misused me and your expense account"), Jack has plugged the book, which was also aided by the flack magic of Manhattan Pressagent David Green. Result: last week a lot of people were being tickled by such blunt, Douglas-made instruments as a "sleeping-pill-of-the-month club," John Huston smoking a lizard, a law that "forbids the transportation of trained female seals over the state line for immoral...
...papers were barraged with publicity as carefully aimed as that in any congressional race. Actor David Niven, clearly a red-hot contender, paid for some $1,500 worth of personal ads for himself. His producers, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster. shelled out even more. "We evaluate the opposition," explained one film flack, "and figure how we go from there...
Once chosen by a jury including Pianist Artur Rubinstein to play on a radio teenage talent program (Prokofiev. Debussy), Brooklyn-born Neil Sedaka explains his turn from serious music in a flack-flavored burst of prose: "The kids who used to throw rocks at me now roll with me." Sedaka's lyrics, like those of his contemporaries, have the air of frenzied discontent that hooks the teen trade. "Today," says one record executive, "you gotta have Weltschmerz with the beat...