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...Mantle. Last week, in the National Football League championship, the Champion Packers faced their sternest test of the season; the New York Giants, humbled 37-0 by Green Bay last year, were thirsting for revenge. "We want this game so badly we can taste it," said Giant Coach Allie Sherman, and 65,000 partisan fans braved Yankee Stadium's 13° cold to howl for Green Bay blood. Around New York the "smart" money was on the home-town Giants. The Packers were tired, the skeptics said. Nobody could pass like the Giants' Y. A. Tittle, nobody could...
...Right after the war and up until the mid '50s, there was always a tremendous demand for hotel space," explains Bert Sommers, general manager of Chicago's forty-year-old Sherman House. "Hotel managers got away with murder. They didn't put their dough back into their hotels; service and facilities went to hell." As the traveling public developed a preference for the convenience and modernity of motels, hotel occupancy rates shriveled from a nationwide average of 93% in 1946 to 62% last year. As operating costs rise for hotels, more and more are filling out their...
Last week was a big one for the man who sings them that way. Quite recently, Allan Sherman was an obscure TV producer who liked to entertain friends by singing familiar songs with lyrics marinated in Jewish humor. Then, during the fall, he made a record called My Son, the Folk Singer, which has sold a million copies and made a world-famous nut of him. Last week, on the day that his new album. My Son, the Celebrity, was released, he gave a concert in Carnegie Hall...
...Sherman is a plump, crew-cut chipmunk man with black-rimmed glasses and a blinking diffidence that suggests he would like to make apologies throughout the harbor for the fact that his ship came in so fast. He is 38. He was born in Chicago and raised by his mother, his father, and three successive stepfathers in Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago and New York. He went to 21 public schools and the University of Illinois. After rolling around TV for some years, he helped think up I've Got a Secret and dropped into relative security as its producer...
...record leaves folk songs largely behind and roams the boundaries of the public domain. Since Gilbert and Sullivan are there now, Sherman has a go at When I Was a Lad from H.M.S. Pinafore: "So I thank old Yale and I thank the Lord And I also thank my father who is chairman of the board." Aura Lee emerges this way: "Every time you take vaccine, take it orally . . ." But the best of all is a number in which Queen Victoria sings the Bill Bailey melody, sniffling, "Disraeli, won't you please come home...