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Swallow or Spit? Though lumping all these people in a union of "artists" is a bit like calling a tailback a tap dancer, the performance of some of the pinch newscasters was worthy of an Emmy, or at least a Hammy, for the best comedy show of the season. Scripts rattled, eyes squinted at TelePrompTers. In Chicago, WLS Advertising Director Frank Nardi made his broadcasting debut as a substitute disk jockey, struggled hysterically to keep up the machinegun patter. Sample: "Hey there! That was the great Ramsey Lewis Duo. . . aah. . .trio. . .whee. . .It's. . .aah. . . . . .three minutes...
There were all sorts of ways to get into print. Eddie ("the Brat") Stanky, manager of the Chicago White Sox, did it by trading insults with Casey ("the Professor") Stengel. Stanky was plumping for a new rule that would permit the same pinch hitter to appear more than once in a game; Stengel called the proposal "a farce," and Stanky retorted: "I don't make rules for farces, no matter what any 75-year-old expert says." Stengel...
That comely coed dutifully jotting lecture notes in biology class? That long-haired beatnik with the droopy mustache sidling into a bull session at an off-campus bar? Beware. They may not be students at all but undercover agents -out to make a pinch. That, at least, was what students at Cornell and Fairleigh Dickinson universities discovered last week. To their considerable surprise, local police in both communities had planted spies on campus to get leads on the sale of illegal drugs...
...score with inventive arrangements by Nelson Riddle, and augments the chorus with a bevy of twittering birds who assure the executives that A Secretary Is Not a Toy. Equally good is the staff of ulcerated businessmen who inch their way along the top of the company as they pinch their way around the bottoms of their secretaries. Comically caught in the act, unfaithfully married and unhappily harried, they are reminders that How to Succeed was good show business because the structure of its satire rested, however slightly, upon a grain of truth...
...unidentified man tried to pinch a bag of Elsie's goodies yesterday...