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...Francisco: What kind of fake flowers were in Merman's room-roses, snapdragons, gladiolas or what? See MODERN LIVING, A Rose Is Not a Rose...
...however, only two-thirds of the ticket-holders (some 6,000 people) turned up, and what with the traffic delays, the extravaganza got under way nearly two hours late. The biggest stars, of course, were the Kennedys themselves, and they had a fine time watching Conductor Leonard Bernstein, Ethel Merman, Milton Berle, Nat King Cole, Mahalia Jackson, Juliet Prowse, Sir Laurence Olivier, Jimmy Durante and a squad of others, including Brother-in-Law Peter Lawford...
...Gershwin Years (CBS, 8-9:30 p.m.). Leland Hayward, who was responsible for last year's brilliant Fabulous Fifties, produced this special starring Ethel Merman, Maurice Chevalier and Julie London. With Composer Richard Rodgers as host...
Divorced. By Ethel Merman, 51, trumpet-toned musicomedy star (Gypsy) who once boasted that she could hold a note "as long as the Chase National Bank": her third husband, Robert F. Six, 53, oilman and president of Continental Air Lines; after seven years of marriage, no children (she has two by a previous marriage); in Juarez, Mexico...
...Trib also learned that any actress can forgive herself for playing an unsympathetic role. As Kay Medford, the all-possessive Mom of Bye Bye Birdie, saw it: "I've never been a mother, so I wouldn't know what mothers are supposed to be like." Added Ethel Merman, offstage mother of two, who plays the self-serving, star-making mother of Gypsy Rose Lee and June Havoc: "Why, Jerry Lewis sat there one night after the show and cried for 15 minutes, and George Jessel cried too. To them, she was a sympathetic woman...