Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tough act to follow, but Singer Georgia Holt is ready to face the music. Holt, nee Jackie Jean Crouch 51 years ago in Kensett, Ark., happens to be the mother of another warbler: Cher. When Mom took the mike at a West Hollywood nightspot, Studio One, last week, Cher and her sister, Actress Georganne LaPiere, were in the audience cheering wildly. For Holt, the stint was actually a refrain. As a youngster, she used to hit the notes on the radio and in saloons across the West. This time around, Holt has hopes of cutting an album and making...
...Certainly much of Murrow's reputation is deserved, but his career was far more varied than the mythmakers allow. Like so many TV newsmen before and after him, Murrow was not immune to the economic attractions of show business. Maybe he never fronted for a game show (as Mike Wallace did) or appeared in commercials (as Barbara Walters has), but he was not above lending his name and talent to schlock. During the years of his justly famous See It Now documentaries, Murrow conducted a celebrity interview show called Person to Person...
...watches Murrow pay his electronic "visits" to famous homesteads, it is hard to ignore the man's obsequiousness. He laughs at his guests' every joke; he helps plug their new books; he hypes their every trivial accomplishment. On these shows Murrow is every bit as lightweight as Mike Douglas-though at least he refrains from picking up a hand mike and belting out songs...
...Yale--fourth and 12 with, less than 20 seconds to go--the tight end cut over the middle--the reception at the eight-yard line--the Mike Lynch field goal seconds later...
...Southwestern garrulousness that marked Lyndon Johnson-his concept being that, if he held a conversation together by his own chatter long enough, he might find out what he himself was talking about. His style was caught best by a young congressman, sent by Roosevelt to China in November 1944, Mike Mansfield, later to be the Majority Leader of the U S 'Senate. Mansfield reported pithily to Roosevelt: "I saw Major General Pat Hurley and we had a very long talk. He talked for two hours and forty-seven minutes, and I talked for thirteen minutes...