Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Frost interviewed Candidate Richard Nixon in 1968?so softly that in 1970 President Richard Nixon ferried Frost and Mum to the White House, where the Englishman was appointed to produce a show in celebration of the American Christmas. Mona Frost still keeps a fondly inscribed photograph of the Nixons in an honored place in her Suffolk bungalow...
...maybe Puritan Frost was merely reverting to form. The only son of a church-mouse-poor Methodist minister, he was at 17 a spellbinding lay evangelist. He preached love and practiced thrift. He still does. Almost uniquely among showfolk, Frost seldom has been known to throw tantrums. He is almost as solicitous toward employees as he is toward celebrities, and treats autograph hunters as tenderly as his audiences or his relatives. He is indiscriminately ingratiating. Not since Ed Sullivan has anyone on television back-patted, hugged and smooched so rapturously. His wide-eyed, basset-unctuous, hand-kneading style...
Stage-door groupies do not throng after Frost. He is sallow-skinned, pouchy-eyed. His suits are rumpled; the thin brown hair barely conceals a balding pate. He gulps pills to avert the double vision he gets from migraines. He gnaws his fingernails. His voice is flat and distinctly non-U. He wears blue suede shoes...
...long-term engagement, Diahann turned around and married (briefly) a Las Vegas clothier. And then there was Karen Graham. A Texas-born model and Vogue cover girl, she received the unqualified blessing of David's Mum ("She's just like one of the family") and was about to get Frosted by Billy Graham in Manhattan. Two days before the Big Day, she got hitched instead to a Chicago businessman. Frost's current love is comely Caroline Cushing, ex-wife of Howard Gushing, the millionaire socialite...
...about David. That goes for some of his old Angries pals. Says Bernard Levin, one of the toughest and brightest of British journalists and a star of the old TW3: "David not only has genuine ability but also human qualities of kindness, generosity, good nature and sympathy." Frost's self-judgment is more modest: "The aim of everything I do is to leave the audience a little more alert, a little more aware, a little more alive." Richard Nixon must feel that way this week...