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...Force cadets I have met have all seemed to be too engrossed with the "far, far above that of West Point and Annapolis" spiel to remember one fact-performance comes first, then the aloofness. In the face of mounting world tension one fact will again be borne out; it is guts not psychology that make...
...served as house comic in a burlesque hall, gave a snake-oil spiel for a stunt-driving show, and worked the circuit as a comic diver-but when he was ordered to plunge 90 ft. into a 7-ft. tub of water, he quit, saying "Look. I'm getting $16 a week, and that won't even pay for the iodine." His first big-time comedian's job came at Manhattan's Club 18. a downstairs bin where everybody on the staff took part in the act. even the waiters and chef. One day Hollywood...
...street crowds in Saigon and startled villagers in Pakistan, Johnson applied the same folksy approach. Despite State Department fears for his security, he darted in wherever he could to pump hands with surprised onlookers, spiel out his message of U.S.-Asian friendship. "As they say back in my state of Texas, you can look into a man's eyes and see what's in his heart. I'm going back to tell my President that I looked into your eyes and I saw friendship for the United States...
...technique and private-eye oboes to amplify uneasiness about "being close." They rhapsodized in terms that John Ruskin might have used to describe Venice at the sight of margarine oozing down a stack of pancakes in a Blue Bonnet ad. And when Mike Nichols and Elaine May did their spiel for a Jax beer cartoon, involving a surrealistic flirtation between a female waitress and a male kangaroo ("How do I know you're not a kangaroo dressed up in a girl suit?"), voices in the audience had a cathedral hush: "This is real entertainment...
...Prospects. In Bloomfield, Conn., fast-talking Real Estate Broker Thomas J. Larkin finished his spiel about the house, wrapped up the deal in the living room while firemen were extinguishing a blaze in the basement...