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Dates: during 1950-1959
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At 24, Diahann (pronounced Diane) Carroll has given a surprising amount of thought to what her public-private image should be. "The difficult, dangerous thing for a performer," she says, "is deciding, 'Just who am I?' It must come from living. What you are in life, you are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Bottom of the Top | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

How to Relax. By the time Diahann entered New York University (to study sociology), she had decided that she wanted a show-business career after all, quit school, allowed herself a two-year trial period in which to find success or failure. She won $3,000 on a TV talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Bottom of the Top | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

A proposal to get the public to share in the responsibility for TV programing last week highlighted the networks' attitude toward their urgent problems. One night last month Board Chairman Sigurd S. Larmon, of Madison Avenue's topflight Young & Rubicam ad agency, suggested to the major network presidents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Whither the Buck? | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

With both CBS and ABC against his plan, Adman Larmon conceded that it had little chance of success. NBC bought a full-page ad in eleven U.S. newspapers to say that the network "assumes complete responsibility to the public for what appears on NBC." But the ad also insisted that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Whither the Buck? | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Public-Private Image. If Eartha Kitt appears before her audiences as the feline temptress and Lena Home as the sophisticated lady with a past, Diahann is the ingenue of the trade-sweet but sexy, and eager to learn. When the soft blue lights came up on her last week, she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Bottom of the Top | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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