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...scarcely anyone stops to listen. Their music is drowned by the clanging bells of sidewalk Santas. Rockefeller Plaza's giant evergreen is ablaze with colored lights, and the Rockettes are kicking their hearts out in a "happy holiday extravaganza" at Radio City Music Hall, which also features a nativity pageant and "Father Goose" (starring Cary Grant and Leslie Caron; 5000 general admission seats for each performance...
Culpepper's play will be the second drama by a Harvard undergraduate, and only the third by an American, to be presented on the Loeb main stage. The first undergraduate play was Thomas J. Babe, Jr.'s The Pageant of Awkward Shadows, which won the first Anderson award two years...
Friday, November 13 MISS TEEN-AGE AMERICA PAGEANT (CBS, 10-11:30 p.m.). More than 50 adolescent finalists vie for a $10,000 college scholarship and the honor of wearing the Miss Teen-Age America crown...
...Line. Throughout the week, Lyndon spent uncounted and uncountable hours on the phone. In Atlantic City his entourage took over all 120 rooms of the newly completed Pageant Motel, across from Convention Hall, as a White House command post. U.S. Army Signal Corpsmen installed a hot line direct to Lyndon. Key Johnson aides carried electronic devices in their pockets that buzzed whenever there was a call from the boss-and there was a lot of buzzing. The contraptions were supposed to work only above ground and within a five-mile radius of the Pageant switchboard. But they were underrated...
...very moment it began, Lyndon landed in Atlantic City and TV followed him to the hall. He paused first for a planeside interview, then 'coptered to a smaller field and finally drove to the Pageant Motel. When the seven seconding speeches finally ended and the delegates roared approval of a motion to nominate Johnson by acclamation, TV showed Lyndon striding into Convention Hall...