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...Spotlight on Track...
Across the river, in Brooklyn, the Dodgers hopefully sold out all the reserved seats in Ebbets Field for the World Series, but had to postpone celebrating so long as the St. Louis Cardinals had a slim mathematical chance of tying them. At Ebbets Field, as in Yankee Stadium, the spotlight had to seek out the manager. Baseball's winning managers, 1947 style, were a long way from the loudmouth, whoop & holler style of Leo (The Lip) Durocher...
...console the millions who could not see the show, radio's perennial wonder boy, Norman Corwin, turned a rosy spotlight on the proceedings with a new script entitled The Time Is Now! "What has the General Assembly in its two years done [about disarmament]?" shouted a voice of disembodied skepticism over the nation's loudspeakers. "What will it do?" The reply came in tones of ringing triumph: "The answer is-it is on the agenda...
Ralph Bellamy, star of Broadway's State of the Union, also had a sunshine-&-shadows week. Hot Organist wife Ethel Smith had sued him for separation, charged that when she played the organ for guests he flew into a rage because she stole the spotlight. Bellamy's own complaint, in answer: though he was busy onstage nights till 11:20, she only gave him till 11:45 to get home, and if he missed the deadline she locked him out. Anyway, Actor Bellamy & highball crashed the Men of Distinction gallery...
...team of inside dopesters had been notoriously cold toward each other. When Allen came home in 1945, he was in no hurry to get back to the old stand. For more than six months, he and Pearson did not even meet or speak, though Allen longed to share the spotlight and the audience (20 million a day) of the carrousel...