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...come to the aid of the Democratic Party's chronic deficit with an estimated $600,000. During the dinner, a smiling Kennedy table-hopped to shake the generous hands. Alan Jay Lerner, the My Fair Lady lyricist and a Kennedy schoolmate at Choate and Harvard, directed a show-biz crowd that included Jimmy Durante, Louis Armstrong, and Brother-in-Law Peter Lawford through some tired song-and-dance routines. Audrey Hepburn sang "Happy Birthday"−and it was all, according to at least three different witnesses, "just awful...
...nation's largest producer and distributor of TV films, and holds TV rights to Paramount's pre-1948 film library, MCA Inc. is uneasily known in the film capital as "The Octopus." Though MCA's elusive President Lew Wasserman, 49, has refused to admit it, show-biz savants have long suspected that the octopus would like to stretch its tentacles into movie production. Last week directors of New York's Decca Records, Inc. approved Wasserman's offer of MCA stock worth an estimated $50 for every share of Decca stock. The proposed merger, which...
...television announcer's license. In the absence of a baby sitter, the anxious mother brought along her baby daughter Janette as well. During the interview, the overtrained Luis muffed some of the questions; but his precocious, farina-fed sister belted out the answers in such clear, bell-like show-biz tones that the licensing board turned from the eleven-year-old Luis and licensed Janette, making her-at the age of two-one of the world's youngest TV pitchwomen...
Crooner Eddie Fisher, who can use some good publicity these days, set up a $2,000 award in modern music and a $4,000 award for classical music at Brandeis University, both named for banjo-eyed Vaudevillian Eddie Cantor, who gave Fisher his first show-biz break nine years ago. Appointed advisers for the scholarships: Cantor for the modern, dynamic Conductor Leonard Bernstein for the classical...