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Into Washington on President-elect John F. Kennedy's Convair, the Caroline, winged Actor-Crooner Frank Sinatra and his close Hollywood pal, Cinemactor Peter Lawford, Jack Kennedy's brother-in-law. Also included in the entourage: a dog in a black sweater. Frankie and Peter had an urgent mission: to stage a mammoth Inauguration Eve entertainment gala in the capital's National Guard Armory. Frankie was fairly glutted with ideas, as he had hinted upon his arrival: "It's really tremendous when you think Ella Fitzgerald is coming from Australia. I could talk...
...Massachusetts, President-elect Kennedy resigned his U.S. Senate seat before the end of the year so that Democratic Governor Foster Furcolo, who had been defeated last November by Republican John A. Volpe, could appoint a Kennedy pal, Benjamin A. Smith, as Kennedy's interim Senate successor. "By resigning before Jan. 1," wrote Lawrence, "Senator Kennedy prevented the Republican Governor from making the appointment. This kind of political maneuvering is not novel, but it doesn't erase the fact that a successor to Senator Kennedy cannot be voted on now for two years...
...David Niven's valet in Around the World in 80 Days (TIME, Oct. 29, 1956), can now see him again in Pepe, a picture that noisily invites comparison with Mike Todd's Oscar-copping travelogue, and severely suffers by the comparison. Like Todd, Producer-Director George Sidney (Pal Joey) signed up Cantinflas and a couple of second-magnitude stars (Dan Dailey, Shirley Jones) for the major parts, then went shopping for big-name bargains, bought up more than two dozen* of them (reported price: a Rolls a role), shot a scene or two with each, and spliced...
North to Alaska (20th Century-Fox), a sort of northwestern for intellectuals, resets the Tristram legend as a Klondike comedy. Steady now. The Tristram is John Wayne. Bound home to Nome with a load of mine machinery, Sourdough Wayne picks up a package (Capucine) for his prospector pal (Stewart Granger). Though sorely tempted, the big dope delivers the package still wrapped. Can't he see that the girl is madly in love with him? Probably not: Actress Capucine has only one expression at her command, a look of tender gastritis. When Wayne and friend get back to the mine...
...month for the life of the show. From his home on the remote Channel island of Alderney, he wrote to Lerner: "For God's sake, forget about me. I want Camelot to succeed as a musical. Put in bubble dancers if you want." To his pen pal Richard Burton he wrote: "I hope it will be borozonic. I will be there on opening night, the old gentleman in the sixth row." Meanwhile, since White is a once and future tippler who plans to go off the wagon soon, the pubkeepers of Alderney were pulling out every bung...