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Welcome News. By last week the most worrisome signs of anti-U.S. feeling-forays into the Canal Zone by flag-planting, nationalistic Panamanian students-were more than two months in the past, and spectators along the road from the airport to Panama City stood peacefully as Milton rode past at 40 m.p.h...
...foot in Panama, Milton delivered the welcome news that a joint U.S. House-Senate committee had just agreed to end the controversial double standard under which U.S. and Panamanian Canal employees are paid according to separate wage scales. His No. 1 mission, however, is asking questions and getting answers about Central America's economic problems, and he took along key men to help him with the job. With him were Roy Rubottom, Assistant Secretary of State for inter-American Affairs; Tom B. Coughran, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Export-Import Bank President Samuel C. Waugh; and Development Loan Fund...
...Milton will spend this week in Panama, Honduras and Costa Rica, will fly next week to Nicaragua, and then take a side trip to Puerto Rico (for Commonwealth Day celebrations). After last stops in El Salvador and Guatemala, he will fly home Aug. 1. This week he was well into his Panama business meeting with President Ernesto de la Guardia, and surrounded by such security that each day's doings were not announced until the morning of the day they were to take place-and his routes to and from his appointments were not released at all. There...
Finding the man to play Harold Hill was a more complicated problem. Television Comic Milton Berle wanted the part. TV Actor Art Carney was considered, and so was Dancer Ray Bolger. Da Costa had seen Robert Preston in a few summer stock shows; Bloomgarden, too, knew Preston's work. Says Da Costa: "Preston has energy and he has reality. He's an actor who can project himself larger than life. And he has enough sureness of technique and enough urbanity to portray the con man and the opportunist without resorting to a wax mustache. The part calls...
...life among Roy's relatives that staggered them. Less than 75 yds. from Roy's cottage stood the elder Harris' swamp-angel shack where, wrote the New York Post's Milton Gross (a Brooklyn type), "you'll see barefooted and barebacked kids whooping and hollering through the woods and kittens feeding off their mothers in the front room. You'll see cattle and hound dogs and the head of an alligator long since gone. Chickens and hogs and rusty tin cans and discarded tires. You'll see garbage strewn on the ground, flies...