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Anyone who has watched him manipulate the wisecracking dummy he calls Jerry Mahoney knows that Paul Winchell, 50, is a talented ventriloquist. But few realize that he may be even more gifted off-camera than on. A gadgeteer with a flair for mechanical problem solving, Winchell has contributed to his own profession by developing new techniques for making dummies move and for animating films. Even more remarkable, he has also contributed to medical science. He has designed and patented a mechanical heart and is now participating in the artificial-heart research program at the University of Utah's medical...
With these stereotypes well established, the script unfolds with all the flair of an interior decorator's imitation of House Beautiful. Albert first tries to ship Skouras off to Chicago with a bribe of fifteen thousand dollars. When this fails he magnanimously offers to take back his wife after her two week, "maybe three week," little jaunt of a romance. The play reaches a climax of insipidity when Fabray, nine months pregnant by her lover, and Channing, nine months pregnant by her husband, punctuate a conversation about men and childbirth with the long groans of labor pains. In the middle...
...youth (at 35, the youngest director in the Met's history), vast enthusiasm, intelligence, a growing reputation as a medievalist and solid backing from the WASP establishment. He was, to resurrect a headline from his Central Park days, A HAPPENING CALLED HOVING, the epitome of New Frontier bounce, flair and pragmatic cheek. Today, he is besieged in the museum whose physical shape, and concomitant policies, he has irrevocably defined and changed...
Hoving is neither. His flair, intelligence and energy are plain to see, as is his fascination with plots and grand gestures. But his actions proclaim a man who thinks that the Met is a fief. When euphoric, Hoving will say that the museum belongs to all the people of New York - and mean it. When defensive, he adduces the strictly legal truth that it is a private corporation whose contents belong to the trustees and no one else - and means that too. Both and neither are right; in the end it is the public that pays for tax-deductible gifts...
When World War II broke out. Weller signed on with the Chicago Daily News and was assigned to cover the Pacific campaign. Weller wrote his dispatches with a real flair for drama; his reports were filled with vivid detail and infused with a sense of immediacy. A tile he titled "I'm still in there Pitching" and datelined "Somewhere in Australia" in which be reconstructed a life-saving operation by pharmacist's mate in a submarine under enemy waters, won him the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Reporting. It's a tribute to Weller's dramatic flair that his story...