Word: hermans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prima-donna manners were rampant on both sides. Equity Chief Counsel Herman Cooper (President Ralph Bellamy was busy in Hollywood, playing F.D.R. in the movie version of Sunrise at Campobello) announced that the union would not go on strike, would simply call evening "meetings" of various casts, shutting down a different show every night. When the union started this "legal harassment" with The Tenth Man, the producers regarded it as a strike, closed all Broadway shows...
...thing he had against Kennedy was the fact that "he lives in Massachusetts." Campaigning in Maryland, Jack cracked back: "I have news for Mr. Truman. Mr. Symington was born in Massachusetts." In the South there were signs of an incipient secession from Lyndon Johnson. A wobbly move to nominate Herman Talmadge as a strategic favorite son began in Georgia. Commented the Atlanta Constitution: "This will further increase the probability that Senator Kennedy will be nominated on the first ballot." In Arkansas, Governor Orval Faubus noted that Kennedy seems to have "started a trend...
...earnings, now running to more than $300,000 a year. Sahl, who delights in proving that almost all popular heroes have clay heads to match their feet, owned up to some personal idols. On his list: Mark Twain ("a prism through which the young country expressed itself"), Herman Melville ("he had scope and virility, didn't internalize"), Tom Paine, Albert Einstein, Edmund Wilson, Theseus, George Bernard Shaw. Allowing that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was "a father figure" to him, Sahl said that he regards Dwight Eisenhower as "a stepfather figure...
...first-rate cast under Conductor Peter Herman Adler, Bass Cesare Siepi was superb as the don, his voice smooth and resonant, his acting a marvel of revealing, reflex-quick responses to the camera's eye. In one of the opera's musical high points, the Act I love duet of Giovanni and Zerlina (Soprano Judith Raskin), Siepi gave his mahogany tones a range of inflections-ardor, indignation, surprise-that told the viewer in the twist of a phrase everything about the don he needed to know. Less effective than Siepi dramatically, Negro Soprano Leontyne Price sang the role...
Tranceformation. In Albany, N.Y., when Newlywed Irish Lashin, 20, went back to her parents' home, after eloping, to pick up some clothes and failed to return, her husband, Hypnotist Albert M. Herman, 33, charged that her parents, who opposed the marriage, had taken her to a professional rival "who put her under some sort of hypnotic spell...