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...front, Bing assured the audience that the performance would go on after intermission. Baritone Mario Sereni was called as a substitute, but when the audience filed back at the warning buzzer half an hour later, a spotlight hit the curtain, and Bing stepped out again. "This," he began slowly, "is one of the saddest nights . . . I ask you all to rise in memory of one of our greatest performers, who died as I am sure he would have wanted to die-in the middle of one of his greatest performances. I am sure you will agree that it would...
...mother, was committed four times to reform schools, went on to San Quentin (robbery, assault) in 1941. Seven years later, he was arrested and identified by three of his victims as the "Red Light Bandit" who drove into lovers' lanes in Los Angeles County with a red spotlight flashing (much as police cars would) and robbed the couples that he found parked there. Of the 18 separate counts filed against him, five included the kidnaping of two women, crimes of sex perversion against each of them, and the attempted rape of one of them-"indescribable crimes...
...noted that his withdrawal from the Forum as representative of the French view came after learning that he would not have equal time to present his side but would "merely comment" on Chanderli's remarks. "I thought it rather strange to ask a Frenchman to help in putting the spotlight on the point of view of the F.L.N. Hence my refusal to join in the occasion...
...pageant of President Eisenhower's official tour, one American woman had a spotlight all to herself. The only trouble was that Barbara Thompson Eisenhower, 33, is the kind of woman who would much prefer to avoid the spotlight. But as wife of Major John Eisenhower, daughter-in-law of the President, and (in Mamie's absence) a kind of unofficial U.S. First Lady on the trip, Barbara Eisenhower began to relax last week and have a happy time...
...first job was to introduce the seven Democratic presidential possibles, and he plainly wore his heart on his sleeve. He breezed lightly over California's Governor Edmund ("Pat") Brown ("a man to be reckoned with''), New Jersey's Governor Bob Meyner ("in the spotlight of public interest"), and Michigan's Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams ("in the forefront of enlightened social legislation"). Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey was "one of the forward-looking thinkers in our ranks"; Adlai Stevenson, chairman of the evening, was "an important and gifted voice in the affairs...