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...freshman year at Horace Mann, Ken Pasternak asked the school basketball coach what he could do in the fall to prepare for the winter season. Pasternak's coach recommended playing soccer since he felt soccer could help the freshman develop his speed and agility...
...Room. The nine girls in its 18-member troupe were, of course, not topless or even braless, but all in shimmering red and white. Their show was 90 minutes of All-Americana, professionally rendered, "saluting what's good and right in America." They hymned what Choral Director Johnny Mann called "purty stuff, sentimental stuff and nostalgia," including Roaring Twenties tunes, a historical recitative, an armed-forces medley, and (two black members of the company notwithstanding) Dixie...
...Mann and Co-Producer Jerry Frank, who previously worked together on ABC's Joey Bishop Show, always knew that they would someday hit big casino. Frank says he was inspired by football crowds that "went bananas" during flag-waving numbers at half time and by the emergence of Middle America. "When that man said 'Silent Majority,' he was right. They are silent. Someone has got to make them jump out of their shells and start screamin', because they're just waiting for someone to give them the spark." Mann's inspiration was more personal...
...White House luncheon, and their next gig was a Memphis fund-raising banquet where they played opposite the va-va-va-voom rhetoric of Spiro Agnew. A follow-up Tennessee State Fair appearance was taped for presentation on the Ed Sullivan Show. All that will ultimately lead, Mann hopes, to an original-cast album, a cross-country tour and a weekly TV series. The whole prospect, he says, gives him goose pimples...
...enrages the country not only because he has wrested the title from an Irish-American but because he has acquired a Caucasian mistress, Eleanor (Jane Alexander). A great copper statue of a man, Jefferson cannot be legitimately toppled. But he can be melted down legally. Arrested on a rigged Mann Act violation, the champ jumps bail and flees to Europe. There the bruiser becomes the bruised. The retreat starts in alcoholism and ends in a Budapest café where with aching symbolism he "lawzy me's" his way through the role of Uncle Tom on a tiny stage...