Word: leprechauns
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...ageless song and dance man who bucked and winged from the gaslight era's Tony Pastor's to his last Broadway performance in Guys and Dolls; of a stroke; in Manhattan. Enchanted as a child by the hurdy-gurdies of Manhattan's Lower East Side, the leprechaun-sized (5 ft. 3 in.) hoofer endeared himself to three generations with his delivery of The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady, his tapping brogans keeping the beat for his gentle Irish brogue...
...Victor Gruen, 58, a lively Vienna-born leprechaun, solving the problems of the deteriorating downtown has become something of an obsession. The automobile, he says, is downtown's most virulent enemy. "No automobile-not even the most elegant Cadillac-ever bought a thing." Dismount the shopper, free him of driving and parking worries, give him a modern version of the old town square, and the city will be born again...
...great cities, where nature is often no more than a slit of sky above the concrete canyons or a bouquet on a secretary's desk, that the rites of spring were most warmly celebrated. In Manhattan, the center stripe down Fifth Avenue turned leprechaun green (as it always does in spring), and 120,000 people marched in honor of an ancient Irish saint. In German Bierstuben, Milwaukee toasted spring with the first malty bock of the season. Philadelphians filled the benches of Rittenhouse Square, turning their pale faces upward to greet the warming sun. And Washington...
...Chevy Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.) Art Carney stars in "O'Halloran's Luck," a musical adaptation of Stephen Vincent Benet's story about an Irish immigrant who becomes a U.S. railroad tycoon with the assistance of a displaced leprechaun. Color...
...Lemass, and casting about for new clients for the W. & G. kooky jar. "We never solicit business," straight-faces Joe Weiner from San Francisco, "we wait for business." But he was not laying odds that another large chunk of the Green would not come under the spell of Adopted Leprechaun Gossage...