Word: ross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...virginal, and tinkled out two more. Before the program was over, one-woman-show Suzanne had also performed on three types of recorders, conducted a group of psalter singers and an ensemble, danced a bit and sung two of her own compositions. Wrote the New York Times's Ross Parmenter: "About the only thing she did not do ... was play the offstage drum in the Renaissance dance." Beamed Suzanne: "He was wrong; I did that...
...verse-writer (Sunset Gun) and movie-scripter (The Fan), seemed to be headed toward Broadway again. It had been 25 years since her first and only Manhattan production-Close Harmony, a flop co-authored by Elmer Rice. In Dallas last week, jittery but still hopeful, she sat with Collaborator Ross Evans in Margo Jones's Theater '49, awaiting the local verdict on their new play, The Coast of Illyria...
Grunts & Groans. The Associated Press's Byron Rollins suggested that Ross let the photographers develop their pictures and submit them for approval. Said Ross, grimly: "These pictures will not be published." Cried International News Photos' Al Muto: "All we ever get from you is a lot of grunts and groans." Grabbing back his plates, he deliberately exposed them. Rollins and Acme's Milton Freier did the same. The movie men, who did not want to waste footage taken before the flight, let Charlie Ross ship their films to Washington to be developed by the Navy...
...Later, Ross lamely explained that he feared photos "pinpointing" the President's hideaway might endanger his security, and that they "constitute an invasion of his privacy." But newsmen pointed to a Chamber of Commerce map identifying the Winter White House's location...
Shears & Shorts. When the newsreels came back, Truman aides trimmed out 21 feet (showing the Winter White House and a nearby naval installation), and Ross's face was saved, technically at least. They released all the informal beach scenes that Ross had wanted to suppress. Later the President did his best to bail out Ross. Jokingly, he told newsmen that "the Boss" (Mrs. Truman) had warned him: "Don't you have any pictures taken of you in a bathing suit. One slipped by at Bermuda [in 1946] and it's been a disgrace to the family ever...