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Hartsfield keeps winning elections because of special qualities-both his and Atlanta's. He is a shrewd political showman, rarely misses the chance to make a speech, once delighted his audience by conducting a symphony orchestra with a Confederate flag. He is also an able administrator who gets a lot of public works built and yet manages to keep his budgets balanced. Thriving Atlanta, thickly infiltrated with migrants from the North, is still a Jim Crow city, but is on the whole ashamed of the violent racial prejudice that is the stock in trade of such wool-hat-minded...
...same question, she says, that she muffed during a "warmup session" before the show. In their growing desperation to check falling ratings that have knocked six quiz-panel shows off the air since October, the programs may be taking greater risks, especially in trying to woo celebrities as contestants. Showman Nils T. Granlund, who won $10,000 from The Big Surprise on "extremely easy" questions, admits that some of the questions he answered during his screening interviews may have turned up on the show itself. One baseball star who was approached to appear on $64,000 Question says that...
...Super-Showman Mike (Around the World in 80 Days) Todd turned up last week as a guest lecturer at the Harvard Business School. Todd's message: "Showmanship has left show business. Everywhere there are businessmen who are better showmen than we who say we're in show business." Though ex-Pitchman Todd is no man to tell a tip (crowd) what it does not wish to hear, there was no doubt that he had a point. As U.S. business gets bigger and more competitive, there is no business like showy business. To make even a small noise takes...
...foot convulsively and whangs his guitar, occasionally wrenching his pelvis Elvis-fashion. Most often he sounds like Grand Ole Opry cornball recorded at 33⅓ r.p.m. played at 78. Backing up the young (25) Glasgow-born skiffler are a second guitarist, a two-beat drummer and the best showman of the combo, a red-goateed bass plucker named Mickey Ashman, who twirls his big fiddle, tops the act by rolling on the floor with...
...modern India with a cool, relentless subjectivity that has been his trademark since his early days in Chicago's languid, sponge-rubber school of TV. He used the same technique to provide television fans last week with a highly personal film poem to Maurice Chevalier's Paris. Showman Chevalier, a redoubtable 68, doffed his straw hat and invited viewers to follow him and see "why Paris is Paris." Chevalier's Paris proved to be not the Folies Bergere, Napoleon's Tomb, the Deux Magots or the Flea Market, just as the ubiquitous Chevalier in Mills...