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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Often invited to visit the U.S. earlier, Lott replied that "conditions did not permit." He referred to a group of troublesome Brazilian militarists who have obeyed him only grudgingly ever since 1955, when he called out troops loyal to him in a "preventive coup," forestalling a plot by some other officers and ensuring the inauguration of President Juscelino Kubitschek. For the past four years Lott has disciplined the hotheads gently (usually with house arrest), built a fiercely loyal cadre of junior officers by promoting them up from the ranks...
...turned the kind of anecdote-flavored coffeehouse talk that has long been familiar in his home town (Vienna) into a highly successful TV act. His garrulous appearances on the Jack Paar show helped boost his current bestseller, Mine Enemy Grows Older, a book of amusing, scurrilous reminiscences. His often witty, sometimes vulgar, hour-long weekly talk show on Manhattan's WNTA-TV (says he: "I speak foully in public and private too") is the latest example of a growing TV trend-conversation...
...over Chekhov and Freud, censored by Actors Equity, censured by critics. Little is heard to compare with the 19th century chores of young Edwin Booth, who led his father, Junius Brutus Booth, staggering from the corner saloon; or Stella Campbell, who turned her back on Sir Beerbohm Tree so often that he ran screaming from the stage. But last week Broadway's most spectacular feline feud in years had the whole street on edge. The clawing started when gifted Actress Kim (Bus Stop) Stanley abruptly announced her departure from Eugene O'Neill's A Touch...
Thus equipped, the ringleaders phoned appointed contacts in U.S. cities-Chicago, Detroit, Portland (Ore.), Philadelphia, Harrisburg (Pa.), Minneapolis-fed them the winning answers. Many of the participants were on the fringes of the entertainment business; Dingman was the only one with a newspaper connection. Often, time zones worked for the swindle; e.g., the phony London bank got its answers at least two hours before U.S. newspapers on the West Coast...
Ever since, shrewd Businessman Newhouse has been completely fascinated by newspapers ("I like the glamour"), has memorized such a store of data about the nation's press that he can often calculate within minutes whether or not to buy: in 1955 he decided to pay $5,500,000 for the Portland Oregonian after a single phone call. Only two of his 14 papers were solidly in the black at purchase (the Oregonian and the Birmingham News); now all are making money...