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When Choreographer Balanchine stepped from his plane into the glare of Moscow klieg lights, he was tearfully greeted by his brother, Composer Andrei Balanchivadze (original spelling of the family name), whom he had not seen for 43 years. In an airport interview with Moscow radio, he was welcomed to "Moscow, home of the classic ballet." Balanchine promptly corrected the interviewer: the home of the classic ballet had moved to America, he insisted; Moscow was the home of the romantic ballet. Balanchine was equally outspoken about the music written by his brother, regarded as the leading composer of Soviet Georgia...
...began at 9 p.m. with an hour-long cocktail party and ended at 3:30 a.m., with the crowd singing God Bless America. In between, while klieg lights stabbed the desert sky, 9,000 guests milled and drank and watched an assortment of 64 entertainers ranging from acrobats and show girls to Stand-Up Comics Shecky Greene and Myron Cohen. The guest of honor, slight, grey-haired and merry as a grig, shook hands, soft-shoed with a bowler hat and sang Harrigan, That...
...note at the end about the trials of the presidency. After a solitary dinner in the White House, he walked to his office, crowded with reporters, TV technicians and equipment. The air conditioning was turned low (lest microphones pick up the hum), and the President perspired heavily under the klieg lights. His delivery seemed almost deliberately low-keyed, but he appeared nervous as he frequently wiped the sweat from his brow, brushed back his damp hair...
...create an atmosphere in which some degree of dispassionate thinking is possible. Everyone hates Eichmann and the era he represents. No one understands him or the sources of his inhumanity. Yet these publicity arrangements indicate that Israel is only interested in staging a spectacle of vengeance under the klieg lights. If Israel continues to play into the hands of the sensation mongers, the critics of the Eichmann trial will have been proven right: with all the issues blurred, executing Eichmann will mean just another body added to the heap...
...ever to bamboozle an editor, New York Press-agent Jim Moran, 51, has found a needle in a haystack (after 82 hr. 35 min.), hatched an ostrich egg (19 days on the nest), sold an icebox to an Eskimo and two snow-blind fleas to Paramount (for use under klieg lights), to pitch himself or a client into the newspapers. Last week Moran was landing in print again, on a coast-to-coast search for "the happiest girl in America-a girl as happy as a Lark." His client: Studebaker's Lark...