Word: york
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...payola? No, said Freed, but to supplement his regular income of $1,200 a week he had served as a "consultant" for "the major record companies." During his last hours on WNEW, Freed danced dolefully with two teen-aged girls at once, accepted a subpoena to face the New York County grand jury, declared: Payola "may stink, but it's here and I didn't start it." Once, he recalled nostalgically, "a man said to me, 'If somebody sent you a Cadillac, would you send it back?' I said, 'It depends on the color...
...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 onstage. Maybe a little less inhibited, but the same person." Daughter of a New York subway conductor, Diahann (born Carol Diahann Johnson) showed youthful musical talent, won a Metropolitan Opera scholarship at ten. "That lasted no more than a month," she says, "because I told my mother I wanted to be the roller-skating champion of the world, and those damned singing lessons interfered with...
...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 show, was booked by Broadway Impresario Lou Walters into his brassy Latin Quarter. Diahann was an instant hit, shared top billing with the changeable Christine Jorgensen, who taught Diahann how to bow like a lady ("Darling, like so . . ."). At 19 she drew raves as Ottilie (alias Violet), the naive young girl...
Fiorello! (book by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott; music and lyrics by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick). Despite an exclamation point that gives it the look of an Italian war cry, Fiorello! matches up with La Guardia, telling the story of New York City's Little Flower from the time he first ran for Congress until his second and successful bid for mayor. The irascibly humane fighting gamecock, whose career, as a matter of fact, has something of the air of a war cry, displays in the theater, as he did on the platform, a naturally theatrical personality...
...When Eugene Gleason, World-Telegram reporter, goes to work on an assignment which calls for exhaustive digging, nothing halts him," glowed the New York World-Telegram and Sun last June. "Time is of no consequence: he will work 24 hours without thought of rest. Weather never daunts him . . . No one awes him." The paper, about to start a new series by Reporter Gleason, listed some of his exploits: he had discovered the cause of a fatal 1956 explosion on a Brooklyn pier (improperly stored explosives); he had uncovered skulduggery in Manhattan's slum-clearance program; he had broken...