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...LIFE-NBC Room 22 sideshows often took the shine off the big show at Convention Hall. In a carefully plotted campaign, reporters and radiomen corralled every major candidate and conventioneer before the Room 22 camera, filled in their backgrounds with documentary films, hustled the audience into caucases, scored several newsbeats. Outstanding scoop: Dewey's press conference, where LIFE-NBC television beat radio and newsreels...
...Aires department store for $32 a month. She liked to sing, finally decided to make a career of it. One day she slipped backstage at a Colón rehearsal, asked María Barrientos, oldtime operatic star and famed teacher, to give her lessons. Coloratura Barrientos took a shine to her, made her a prot...
...homey feeling (to a distinguished visitor who had called himself an s.o.b., she exclaimed: "Oh, you have an S.O.B.?" as if it were an honorary degree). The Sills have never grown used to visiting celebrities. Once Lord Dunsany left his shoes outside his door for a servant to shine. In the morning they had been shined-by Casey himself...
...odds, which have shortened considerably through the years. First, it was his size. At Southgate, Ky., just across the river from Cincinnati, the other kids told him that he was too small to play baseball. At ten, as a caddy at the Highland Country Club, he took such a shine to the game that his father, Patsy Arcaro, the comfortably fixed proprietor of a china store, thought he had a golfer in the family. One of Eddie's best clients was Tom McCaffery, a crotchety race horse owner...
...lyrics have lost a good deal of their sparkle, and the book every last shred of its wit. Nor could Bambi Linn (Carousel), however pleasing a dancer, challenge the lustrous memory of the late Marilyn Miller. And though in Willie Howard Sally has a star, it seldom lets him shine. In the role originally played by Leon Errol, Howard talks twaddle that is too refined. Only here & there can he muscle out of the show-with some triumphantly low-down touch, or by singing variations on Look for the Silver Lining...