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...Announcer Bill Goodwin, the $1,000 a week he got for plugging Swan soap was no soporific: he still wanted to be a comedian. His whole point in plugging soap on the Burns & Allen show-with an agreement that he be given plenty of publicity and good lines to speak-was to attract attention to himself. But the stars of the Burns & Allen show are Burns & Allen. Advertisements that printed ambitious Bill Goodwin's name in type as big as the stars' rocked George Burns back on his heels. Presently Goodwin's publicity and his lines began...
...78th Congress flickered to a finish, lame-duck Congressmen seized their last chance. One by one, they took to the floor with prepared valedictories. Most of their colleagues had already gone home, but the Congressional Record was still there, duty-bound to print every last quack. Each swan-songster was convinced that his constituents had been misguided, but magnanimously agreed to abide by the voters' decision. Each also wanted to take a few fast, final pokes at the Soviet Union and the British Empire...
Robert ("Buncombe Bob") Reynolds, 60, delivered his swan song looking jaunty and well-preserved in a loud-checked shirt and playboy bow tie. North Carolina's junior Senator, now the son-in-law of Washington's wealthy Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, had decided last spring not to seek a fourth term. Said Buncombe Bob: "I have often referred to myself as an isolationist. . . . I merely employed the term because those who attempted to smear us for trying to keep this country out of the war used that word. . . . We are winning this war. . . . Russia could not have...
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (London Philharmonic, Antal Dorati conducting; Columbia; 8 sides). Not the Swan Lake score familiar to U.S. ballet audiences, but a somewhat different selection of items from Tchaikovsky's original ballet which once enthralled St. Petersburg balletomanes and is now the favorite of Muscovites. Suave, tuneful Tchaikovsky. Performance: excellent. Recording: good...
Congress was in a holiday mood. Only a few days of the session remained. But amidst the high jinks and the swan songs, the work ground...