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...nationwide bureaus-Leigh, Keedick and Columbia-charge from $100 to $1,500 per lecturer, from which they take 30%-40% (out of his remainder the speaker is expected to pay his own expenses). In the top bracket are Funnymen Cerf and Walter Slezak, as well as Pundits Stewart Alsop and C. Northcote Parkinson. "Price is based mainly on the name, personality and availability of a celebrity-and of course on his tax bracket," says Robert Keedick of the Keedick Lecture Bureau. "On the other hand, someone who has a message to sell, like Billy Graham, will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leisure: Less Staring, More Listening | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

Westport, Conn., Westport Country Playhouse: Ionesco's Rhinoceros, with Walter Slezak doing the bellowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: Jul. 6, 1962 | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

Through all this she remains a bit of a square and a bit naive; according to her friend and neighbor, Walter Slezak. "A certain line of smut goes past her." She is still awed by some occasions. Before a television appearance,, she had the shakes so badly that Jack Paar had to wrap her in his bathrobe, like a Channel swimmer. But most of the time, she is unshakable and very much in charge of things. "If I were having a frontal lobotomy," she says, "I'd tell them how to do it, like 'try going in through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: BROADWAY | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

...Walter Slezak and Siobhan McKenna in Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, may 23, 1960 | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

...Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 5:30-6:30 p.m.). A seasonal variety program stars Walter Slezak in Ludwig Bemelmans' The Borrowed Christmas; Judith Anderson narrates the Nativity passages from St. Matthew and St. Luke; Dick Button skates; Germany's Obernkirchen Children's Choir sings Christmas carols.Color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Dec. 14, 1959 | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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