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...Metropolitan Opera's Gilbert-and-Sullivanish souffle, La Périchole, which he also staged. "I sound like a sick walrus when I'm in good voice," he says. Within a matter of months he also bested Mike Wallace on Night Beat, played the bean peddler in TV's Jack and the Beanstalk, made some records with Bea Lillie, played all the parts in a recording of Alice in Wonderland, recorded Peter and the Wolf with the Philadelphia Orchestra, did several benefits and filled various speaking engagements. "I simply drift around like flotsam and jetsam," he says...
...harsh with "Art" Peddler Lowitz. This is the Dingbat Age, in which anything can happen. J. F. HARRINGTON Los Angeles...
...interviewer: "I am strictly a no-talent guy myself." But he probably can commandeer more live talent than anybody in broadcasting. Born and educated in Philadelphia, Manie, who looks like a rough draft of Frank Sinatra, learned show business as an actors' agent (show biz lingo: "flesh peddler") for the Music Corp. of America, then took over bookings for Columbia Records. In that job, he successfully persuaded Dinah Shore, Sinatra, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Xavier Cugat to switch their recording allegiance to Columbia from RCA Victor. In 1950, Manie himself switched to RCA Victor, and brought in his wake...
...famed five-percenter investigation, the big names were those of Influence Peddler James Hunt and Harry Vaughan. Hunt won fees from business firms on the strength of his claims that he could land Government contracts for them through his friendship with Vaughan and other Administration officials. Harry Vaughan virtuously denied all wrongdoing, claimed that the deep freezer had been just an "expression of friendship...
...Four Bs. President Black is much more than an expert securities peddler. He is the world's leading salesman of the benefits of capitalism, and the Bank did not really reach its stride until he became its president...