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Footlights & Klieg Lights...
...Ransom Price? The verdict touched off a roar of protest all over the free world. The State Department blasted the trial as "a kangaroo court staged before the klieg lights of propaganda," a "shabby 'conviction'" based on "fabricated charges." In London, the News Chronicle cried: "To make the legitimate gathering of news a crime as the Czechs have done is as severe an indictment of the Communist regimes as there could...
...talent search for a new Tamba. Of dozens of simian applicants, he rejected all but six. With their sponsors, the finalists lumbered into the studio for screen tests, like prodigies led in by proud mothers. Two of the animal actors disqualified themselves at once-one by shying at the klieg lights, the other by "freezing," and "refusing to take direction." Then the remaining candidates went into the big test. Chief items: to retrieve bananas from chandeliers, walk through a maze of ash trays, drinking glasses, tables and boxes, hop into a pool (most chimps dread water), kiss several actors...
...Could any man be entrusted with the power of determining who would be seen and heard by possibly 40 million voters?" Without the most delicate handling of the whole television question, Wiley warned, "televised hearings will degenerate into three-ring circuses, fourth-rate stage productions or unjust inquisitions under klieg lights...
...crowded, klieg-lighted hearing room on Capitol Hill last week, George Marshall filled in the details of U.S. plans for the defense of Europe-and in so doing all but ended the Great Debate. He disclosed to Congress and the world just how many U.S. troops would be committed to General Eisenhower's command...