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...first was at Corvallis, Ore.; Lind-gren's time was a so-so 29 min. 37.6 sec. One month later, at the U.S.-Russia track meet, he shaved 20 sec. off that time. Last week he ran the fastest 10,000 meters run by an American all year: 29 min. 2 sec.-winning by 70 yds. and waving happily to the wildly cheering crowd. No one, least of all Lindgren, has the foggiest idea how fast he can really run. "I'm not sure I can do any better than 29.2," Lindgren says. "But I sure hope...
...Flatbush, Woody flunked out of N.Y.U. and C.C.N.Y. in the same year. But at 17, he was already a success, writing gags for newspaper columnists. Earl Wilson mentioned his name to a show business public relations firm, and Woody was soon writing TV jokes for Herb Shriner, Peter Lind Hayes, Sid Caesar, Art Carney, Garry Moore. In one two-year period (he says) he wrote 25,000 gags. He now gets $1,500 for supplying a comedian with a five-minute...
...name is Leslie Uggams, and she has been in and around TV for twelve years. She appeared with Arthur Godfrey, Garry Moore, Sid Caesar, Peter Lind Hayes, Bob Crosby. She won $25,000 as a contestant on Name That Tune. Mitch Miller, as Columbia Records' artists-and-repertory man, saw her and signed her to a contract, starting her up the charts. As a TV performer, Miller invited her to sing along with him and finally made her a permanent star. It was a long pull. She was seven when she started...
Gaithersburg, Md., Shady Grove Music Fair: Mary Healy asking Peter Lind Hayes Who Was That Lady I Saw You With...
...Jenny Lind, The Swedish Nightingale, by Gladys Denny Schultz. Though the author oversentimentalizes her heroine and all but drowns her out with petty detail, this account of the cold, superbly gifted soprano who became P. T. Barnum's greatest exhibit is absorbing for its large store of remarkable anecdotes...