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...entertainers ate in the upstairs dining room with Jack and Jackie Kennedy, Lee Radziwill, British Ambassador David Ormsby-Gore and his wife. Then they were joined by a passel of Kennedy relatives and the Kirk Douglases. Cinemactor Douglas, like Carol and Burns, had entertained at the Democratic gala. Carol and George did a few comedy routines, Douglas presented a song that he sang when auditioning for a Broadway show 20 years ago (he failed to get the part), and most of the Irish present joined in for a chorus of The Wearing of the Green...
...armory, where 6,000 contributors had turned out to see a splendid show, organized by Broadway-Composer Richard Adler. The huge hall was happily decorated with 4,000 red. white and blue balloons, and there were plenty of Kennedys for the guests to gander at. M.C.s Gene Kelly and Kirk Douglas mixed wisecracks (said Douglas, "I've heard a rumor that a movie is to be made about Brother Edward, to be called 'I Was a Teen-Age Senator' ") with tributes to the President, and introduced a parade of first-rate entertainers. Yves Montand sang his French...
Lonely Are the Brave. Man as God made him and a world God never made meet in mortal battle in this simple, painful story of a cowboy (Kirk Douglas) who tangles with 20th century civilization...
...other Pope, and received some historic papal guests: the first Greek Orthodox sovereign to visit the Pope since the days of the last Byzantine emperor, the first Archbishop of Canterbury since the 14th century, the first chief prelate of the U.S. Episcopal Church, the first Moderator of the Scottish Kirk, the first Shinto high priest. When Jacqueline Kennedy came to visit, John asked his secretary how to address her. Replied the secretary: ' 'Mrs. Kennedy,' or just 'Madame.' since she is of French origin and has lived in France." Waiting in his private library, the Pope mumbled: "Mrs. Kennedy, Madame; Madame...
...deep-sea diver." he explains. "For years I was content to be the guy pumping the air down to the deep-sea diver. Now I feel I've got to put on the suit myself." He pumped air to Marlon Brando in Viva Zapata! and to Kirk Douglas in Lust for Life, each time winning an Oscar as the year's best supporting actor. He created sworls of off-center violence in dozens of other good movies, from 1943's The Ox-Bow Incident to 1961's The Guns of Navarone. But despite his Oscars...