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...Nikita Khrushchev slowly emerged from his TU-104 turbojet in Bulgaria last week, he seemed to lack his usual bounce. He had lost weight, the skin on his neck and face was slack, his eyes lacked sparkle. It took him a full day to recover anything like his old roadshow form. Then, in the Black Sea city of Varna (formerly called Stalin), he planted two small trees, after which he handed the shovel to startled Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. "I have helped build Communism," joked Nikita. "Now you've got to work. This isn't like writing notes...
...born about 47 years ago and brought up on the wrong side of the Tiber. Her mother was a working girl and her father did a fade when Anna was a month old. At 17, she won admission to a dramatic school, and soon joined a rundown roadshow as a singer of stornelli, the street songs of a country where the streets are seldom cleaned...
...Star Finale. That was about all the committee needed to confirm its worst suspicions of the extent and brazen confidence of the Chicago syndicate. Next week, in the wind-up hearings, Estes Kefauver will bring his roadshow to New York, where an all-star cast, including Frank Costello, Joe Adonis and Meyer Lansky, unhappily awaits him. Then the committee will sit down to write its final report...
...fair's biggest drawing-card was "Texas' Own" Mary Martin, back home to sing the Ethel Merman role in a roadshow edition of Annie Get Your Gun.* Twice a day, Mary played to S.R.O. crowds in the Fair Park Auditorium. Her nearest box-office rival: the Borden Co.'s famed cow, Elsie...
...Washington last week toward the New York World's Fair (thence to New England) rolled a roadshow long promised to stamp collectors by Jim Farley: a three-ton truck fitted up as a philatelic museum, displaying 535 varieties, representing every U. S. stamp. Announced value was $1,000,000, although the displays are unused, unsalable, imperforate proofs from original plates. Visitors to the truck can buy a 10? history of U. S. philately, current and commemorative stamps. Hot off a tiny press, they get blue souvenir stickers of the White House portico where Philatelist Roosevelt last week dedicated...