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...President, with Robert Ryan in the title role and Nanette Fabray as First Lady, is a taste-exempt musical that is bulging with more than $2,600,000 in advance-ticket-sale swag. The patrons of its 385 theater parties (largely benefit affairs) may redefine playgoing for charity as "painful giving...
...adept at the begging bowl, he was careful not to join in the open attacks on the U.S. or to mention any other Western nation by name when deploring imperialism. To do so would destroy the chance of wangling a bit of Western aid to supplement and offset the swag he had picked up from the eager Communists...
...imitator of NBC's successful The Price Is Right, is perhaps the most artful personification of greed among the new crop of grab-the-swag shows. Hosted by Cyclonic Ham Bert Parks in the guise of an auctioneer, the show parcels out $5,000 in cash to each of four contestants to bid for the clues they wish to buy. The clues, in the form of rhymed couplets ("Morning, noon and night, you'll find me tight") may help the player guess the identity of an object silhouetted behind a scrim curtain (in this case, an electric light...
...Chaplin, now in self-exile in Switzerland. A day later, for his "extraordinary service" in behalf of the Kremlin, Chaplin, along with Soviet Composer Dmitry Shostakovich, was awarded a peace prize (value: about $14,000) by the Communist-sponsored World Peace Council. Charlie, who planned to carve up the swag among peace lovers in London, Geneva and Vienna, was "very pleased," but a friend of the family reported that Charlie's fourth wife, Oona O'Neill Chaplin, for reasons best known to herself, "seemed not so enthusiastic...
...days later, the old man, the young girl and the dowager meet in Nice to split the swag and plan their next job: selling the hotel they are staying in. From here out. the progress of the three gentle grafters from riches to rags is an amusing little elegy on the good old days before the big villains put all the nice little crooks out of business. Actor Squire, a master of the mumble-and-ndget school of British comedy, makes a roguish old rogue, and James Hayter, as the man who buys the hotel, does a preposterously funny caricature...