Word: pans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Remember How Great (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). The Tin Pan Alley hits of the past three decades aired by Andy Williams, Connie Francis and Harry James, among others. Host: Jack Benny. Color...
PACIFIC AIR CARRIERS will get no more competition on current routes. Eisenhower turned down CAB recommendation that Pan American and Northwest Orient get parallel routes with each other and with foreign flag lines between U.S. and Japan. Ike feared new routes might "adversely affect" foreign relations, also found that forecast of only 17 revenue passengers a day in five years made further competition uneconomical...
...Love Game (inFrench). Jean-Pierre Cassel, playing a ludicrous but lovable mixture of Don Juan and Peter Pan, emerges as the funniest Frenchman since Tati's Hulot...
...good deal of Attic bawdry is left out. Graves mentions that Queen Omphale once bought Heracles as a slave, but does not add that Heracles was the Queen's lover and that the two of them deceived the lustful Pan by dressing Heracles in one of Omphale's gowns and decoying the god into a darkened grotto. Such goatly matters as remain are dealt with by an adroit blending of taste and truth, e.g., "Demeter had been rather wild as a girl, and nobody could remember the name of Persephone's father; probably some country god married...
...Exile. Benito Mussolini made Haile Selassie a world figure, known from the League of Nations to Tin Pan Alley. As his barefoot troops fell back before the 1935-36 Italian invasion, the Emperor trekked to Geneva to ask help from the League of Nations. A tiny (he is only 5 ft. 4 in. tall) but imperious figure, Haile Selassie seemed gallant and curiously impressive even in defeat. When the League declined to save his country for him, he settled down in Britain, where he checked his crown in a bank vault. Four years later, as the British army mounted...