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...Mercury General Sales Manager Joe Bayne, an old radio veteran who had worked with Major Bowes in the heyday of his Amateur Hour, says: "It took us less than 20 minutes to decide on Ed Sullivan. It was crystal clear. Ed was a second Major Bowes. Bowes used tc muff the English language. Ed does too. But the thing about the two of them is their genuineness and truthfulness. So we said, 'We'll buy Sullivan for 13 weeks.' " The 13 weeks has lengthened into seven years. Contemplating his handiwork, Bayne remarks: "Every period since then...
Actor's Muff. On one level, the film v. live-TV fight is an artistic squabble. Producers and directors of such live shows as Studio One, U.S. Steel Hour and Philco Goodyear TV Playhouse argue that the theaterlike thrill of live TV cannot be captured on film, and that live performances hold more excitement and spontaneity. Replies Film-Maker Hal Roach-"Who wants to see a stagehand in the wrong place, or hear an actor muff his lines? That's what spontaneity means...
Even Dale Carnegie has a tendency to muff matters, when he should be winning friends; he forgets names. Fortunately for him, he has a wife who knows how to help. At parties, she jerks him up by saying: "Dale, you remember Mrs. Robinson. She was just telling me about Lake Louise." In How to Help Your Husband Get Ahead. Dorothy Carnegie fills 251 pages with similar tips. She has almost surely written a bestseller...
...current popular confidence is a fingers-crossed faith, which could be changed into a thumbs-down rejection, if this time a pro-business Government and private business enterprise muff the ball . . . Sheer business enterprise, motivated solely by self-interest, is not enough . . . It is up to businessmen themselves to add . . . business statesmanship . . . Business [must] think and act as though it had the chief responsibility of solving all the gigantic problems that confront our nation . . . Business [must] have the courage and the common sense to rise above class interest to heights of economic statesmanship, which asks before every private or public...
Next day, Frank Carlson heard his good friend Bob Taft's side of the story: the G.O.P. must not muff its big chance by allowing friction to develop between the White House and the Capitol; as majority leader, Taft would be thoroughly loyal to Ike Eisenhower; friction could be avoided best with Taft in the majority leadership. After the conference, Carlson telephoned around to other Ike-before-Chicago Senators, got their general endorsement of Taft as majority leader...