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...once heroic 100,000-mile-a-year traveler has been superseded by the 250,000-mile man; both Kaiser Industries President Edgar Kaiser and Loew's Hotel President Preston R. Tisch flew that far last year. Jets also make it possible for prosperous executives to live in one climate and relax in another. Pan Am has a regular clientele of Manhattan businessmen who have bought winter homes in Nassau, jet from snow to sun weekends on an easy 2-hr. 50-min. flight...
...drugstore (where he collected, as Brother Ralph put it, "enough bathroom supplies for six months"), Humphrey last week flew into Manhattan for conferences with Ambassador to the U.N. Adlai Stevenson and lunch with members of the Security Council. One evening Humphrey and his wife Muriel saw Robert Preston in Ben Franklin in Paris, a musical show about the diplomatic old American who charmed the French into helping the U.S. in the infancy of its independence...
When Ben Franklin in Paris opened at the Lunt-Fontanne, Music Man Robert Preston, 46, moved into the dressing room used last summer by Richard Burton. That seemed to set the tone of things. Three weeks later, Preston moved out on his offstage wife of 24 years, Catherine, and began to concentrate on after-theater sorties with his leading lady, Swedish Singer Ulla Sallert, 41. Ulla says it is "just a coincidence" that she is divorcing her husband of 19 years, Baron Franz von Lampe. "I am not a home-cracker," she coos, "but if I'm invited...
...Franklin in Paris is a title in search of a show. This Ben (Robert Preston) is no American Renaissance man but a Broadway showman in knee britches who treats his inventions-the Franklin stove, the lightning rod, the rocking chair-as enticing props to con the yokels of Louis XVI's court. The court is ostensibly Versailles, but the real milieu is the chandelier-lit ballroom of half a hundred interchangeable musicals in which girls in flowing period gowns go swirling into musical-comedy oblivion...
...book gets no lift from Mark Sandrich Jr.'s music-to-yawn-by, and Director-Choreographer Michael Kidd unleashes his dancers only once for some sword and gun play. No one could coax a poor performance out of Robert Preston, but his hard-sell charm, snap and gusto create the curious impression of a history-book minstrel man in whiteface. Still, he could save the show if there was one to save...