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...dresses or shiny jewelry. ¶ TV's key men will scarcely be seen at all. TV Pool Director Bob Doyle (NBC) will call the shots, decide which of the images from scores of cameras will go inside the nation's homes, offices and bars. Between acts the spotlight will fall on the sideshows: Will Rogers Jr., Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen, George Gallup, Dave Garroway et al. Walt Kelly's Pogo, campaigning for President (on NBC) with "four buckets of cigar smoke," hopes to "lull the regular parties into a false sense of security by repeated attempts...
Since the CRIMSON first planned to do this supplement in February, editors have traveled more than 10,000 miles in the South to gather first-hand information for it. We have not attempted to give here a comprehensive picture of the situation; we rather have tried to spotlight certain local developments and specific problems of the highly complex question of Negro education...
Without preamble, the three-piece band cuts loose. In the spotlight, the lanky singer flails furious rhythms on his guitar, every now and then breaking a string. In a pivoting stance, his hips swing sensuously from side to side and his entire body takes on a frantic quiver, as if he had swallowed a jackhammer. Full-cut hair tousles over his forehead, and sideburns frame his petulant, full-lipped face. His style is partly hillbilly, partly socking rock 'n' roll. His loud baritone goes raw and whining in the high notes, but down low it is rich...
...loudmouthed osteopath" of whom we have "at long last apparently tired" [April 9]. Phog is undeniably outspoken and loquacious, but his forceful hammering has been responsible for, among other things, the presence of basketball on the Olympic program, the N.C.A.A. basketball tourney, and for putting the spotlight on basketball gambling long before anyone else recognized the evil, let alone had the courage to publicize it. STEWART NEWLIN Publisher The Wellington Daily News Wellington. Kans...
...spectacular arrival in England last week of General Ivan Serov, boss of Russia's dread secret police (see FOREIGN NEWS), was in sharp contrast to his discreet entry into India and Burma last December-when TIME first turned a journalistic spotlight on him. During the early part of that tour with Khrushchev and Bulganin, Serov managed to remain always close at hand but as unobtrusive as a plainclothesman. At state functions and banquets he was billed on programs and place cards simply as I. Serov. This meaningful name on the list of the Khrushchev-Bulganin entourage sent TIME...