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...dinner of titans and financiers and never seem to be just a fast-talking gagman rung in for the night. He carries off that sort of thing with an offhand assurance that suggests he's really one of the big tycoons who just happened to take the podium. Small wonder. That's what he is. If anyone still wonders where the yellow went, Pepsodent's aggressive young comedian of 1938 is now one of the largest individual holders of raw acreage in Southern California. He has thousands of acres in the San Fernando Valley and hundreds...
...JACK PAAR PROGRAM (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Oscar Levant returns to the Paar podium, along with Gordon and Sheila MacRae. Color...
...nation's most populous state. As for Big Daddy himself, he could only mourn: "Sometimes I think the only thing I could do to stay out of controversy would be to cut my throat. But then they'd blame me for bloodying up the speaker's podium...
...podium, Dunn is free of all bravura mannerisms. He conducts with a spare clarity of line that emphasizes the beauty of the music through its style and structure. His approach is that of modesty in the face of genius, seeking out the composer's intent, never willfully imposing his own "interpretation...
Ever since, poor Seiji has believed that all 5 ft. 6 in. and 125 Ibs. of him is somehow not enough to command respect on a podium. He downed quarts of beer every day in an effort to build a stocky German silhouette, to no avail. "It would be ideal to be older and German," he mused. "But can I help being young and thin and Japanese...