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COMEDY IN MUSIC. That matchless mirthmaster of the keyboard, Victor Borge, riffles through gags and slides off the piano bench without altering his usual mask of disdainful dismay. Added notes, comic and musical, are provided by a straight man, noted Pianist Leonid Hambro...
COMEDY IN MUSIC. That matchless mirthmaster of the keyboard, Victor Borge, riffles through gags and slides off the piano bench without altering his usual mask of dismay and disdain. Added notes, comic and musical, are provided by Straight Man Leonid Hambro...
...historical record, the program is matchless, because no book could give a sense of it nearly so well. It shows Truman at his off-the-cuff best-and worst. In this week's show, for example, he can't resist asserting that generals in general make lousy Presidents. Not only was Grant a bad one, according to Harry, but also "the very recent one, about whom I hesitate to talk...
Died. Pierre Cartier, 86, Manhattan jeweler, grandson of the founder of the Paris original, who was sent across the Atlantic in 1907 to mine the U.S. market, quickly established himself as the purveyor of gems to America's rich and famous, displaying 24-carat charm, matchless discretion ("We are the confessor of our clients"), and some of the world's most dazzling baubles, among them the famed Thiers pearl necklace, purchased by Cartier from the Louvre in 1924 for $760,000; of uremia; in Geneva...
Although he lacks the style and personality which made the late President a matchless national leader, Johnson possesses a knowledge of the Congress which has made him a superb legislative leader. In fact, no President in this century, not even Roosevelt, has had a better relationship (or more experience) with Congress; even his enemies willingly concede his political potency...