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...roof down, and he does." Alta Maloney (Traveler) called it "a whopper of a show-stopper, sung in a voice that made chills go up and down the spine." T.K. Morse (Patriot Ledger) found him "glorious." Bradford Swan (Providence Journal) said Price sang "superbly," and Donald Cragin (Worcester Telegram) felt he performed "with the verve of one who has practiced generations for the moment." Elliot Norton (Boston Record) spoke of his "huge voice of great resonance," and later expanded his praise extensively in his half-hour TV discussion of the show. The show's two stars each wore a body...
...telegrams to President Johnson, he bluntly refused to provide protection to the marchers. He reckoned that it would cost $400,000 and require 6,171 men to police the march route, demanded "federal civil authorities" to do the job because Alabama simply could not afford to. Obviously, Wallace was throwing to the President the onus of having to call out the Alabama National Guard. The President accepted the challenge and from the LBJ Ranch issued the orders that sent the Guard onto the parade route. "Responsibility for maintaining law and order in our federal system properly rests with state...
Bismarck was scornful of the forces that helped him most and disliked the people whom he most helped. "Nobody despises public opinion as I do," he said. Yet he shrewdly used public opinion, most notably by editing the famous Ems telegram to make it appear that the Kaiser had inexcusably affronted the French ambassador. Result: France felt compelled to declare war, and Germany conquered Alsace-Lorraine. While his generals were mounting history's first blitzkrieg, the Chancellor condemned their "criminal" sacrifice of manpower. He called their tactics "all fists and no head" and remarked that Prussia's only...
...disappointment of the principals involved, Alabama Governor George C. Yallace missed the program. He had been a telegram requesting that he a delegation "of Alabama citizens presenting lovers of democracy" who were "desirous of presenting to [him] petition...
...personal relationships so that a steady volley of wit builds up out of character and situation. Simon also knows how to prod a cliché off its bed of banality so that it walks toward the brink of logical absurdity. "Who'd send a suicide telegram? Can you imagine getting a thing like that? You have to tip the kid a quarter." An entire rhetoric of expert timing is contained in Walter Matthau's slow burns and Art Carney's fretful fidgets, with Matthau inching out acting honors in one scene of nervous collapse that is rather...