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...musical history who have ever squeezed big money out of an accordion. When he steps out into a spotlight and flashes a smile almost as wide and white as the keyboard of his stomach Steinway, his lady fans go limp, men smile wanly, and the management gets ready to peel off up to $4,000 a week...
...chief of Special Projects of United Nations Radio, Corwin advised his readers that radiomen want "the safe, routine, unspectacular, competent, journeyman script . . . with maybe a fresh twist no bigger than what you give to a lemon peel in a Martini." In TV, the writer is even less important: he "must step aside for Gorgeous George, Garrulous Godfrey . . . westerns, British films from the bottom of the vault, midget autos, roller-skating derbies . . . kitchen and fashion demonstrators, giveaways, and the upper slopes of Faye Emerson." But if he is willing "to curb his imagination" and to look on the medium...
...Hollywood to be either a tense movie or a funny one. But there are still elephants and Lamas and red-jacketed British soldiers playing "John Peel," as they march through the dust; and our side wins in the end. There is still a bit of the call-of-Injuh flavor--enough to make the movie fun if you're in the mood...
...eleventh successive year, Old Boy Winston Churchill traveled down to Harrow's annual songfest, requested John Peel, Hearts of Oak and a tune called The Island, which he had sung as a student almost 60 years...
...Nothing. In Sydney, Australia, Paintmaker Charles Joseph Relph admitted setting fire to his paint factory, explained that he had not been able to find out why his product tended to peel...