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...people gave the show a chance to survive at all with a tough TV audience -night people already addicted to six-gun cowpokes or to the time-defying charms of late movies, with their youthful Gables and ageless Garbos. Could the All-American boy with the dimpled chin and the dinky toupee move the merchandise against such competition? At first NBC bigwigs were talking about a well-integrated variety show. Says Paar: "A television executive doesn't know what he wants to do, but he can put it on paper. I let them all talk and write memos...
...commissioned in the Navy, you had to be appointed by the President with the approval of Congress. This is the procedure and requirement for the seating of a Supreme Court judge or an ambassador. This is why a naval officer must have his chin out at all times...
...career and Navy prestige hit a new high when, as Assistant Chief of Naval Personnel, he got the job of executing the decision to demobilize most of the 3,300,000-man Navy fast -"boys home for Christmas." Holloway did the irksome job in chin-out style, standing memorably against all half-threats and pleadings from Capitol Hill and elsewhere to get favored constituents home ahead of their time. One day, when a U.S. Senator brought in a friend to ask a favor, Holloway said in the lawyer's tone that Congressmen understood and admired: "I look...
...first Goldfine, groomed in a dark blue suit and "B.G."-initialed blue silk tie, walked into the packed subcommittee hearing room chin up but eyes downcast, escorted by a retinue of three lawyers, devoted employees and jewelry-hung wife. When Subcommittee Chairman Oren Harris administered the oath, Goldfine helplessly mouthed words, cleared a frog from his throat and finally croaked: "I do." Then he launched into the 25-page statement that the lawyers and pressagents had written, right down to grammatical errors, to fit his role of the common but honest...
Something snapped inside Trooper Tedbury. He flashed his unsheathed sword down from the vertical "Carry Sword" position, pointed it straight at Guide Reeves's throat and shouted over his chin strap: "You are a liar. Move on!" The 34 Americans retreated in disorder, and Guide Reeves found himself speechless...