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Last week Susskind's hostmanship finally blew the cork, deluged the show in fizz and fuzz. The occasion was the seasonal opener of Open End, and the evening's topic was a weighty one: Frank Sinatra's Clan. As panelists, Susskind invited some celebrated tosspots, including Jackie Gleason, Joe E. Lewis, Toots Shor and Actress Lenore Lemmon. When the program opened, it was apparent that most everyone was well fortified, and as it progressed, everybody helped himself to a liquid refreshment camouflaged in a teapot. Susskind, with some help from sharp-tongued Critic Marya Mannes, tried manfully...
With customary sensitivity to the major trends in U.S. society, TV Impresario David Susskind came up with a colossal program idea: Why not do one of his Open End discussion shows on Hollywood's much-publicized Clan and invite Frank ("The Leader") Sinatra to participate? Back from Frankie came a telegram stating his price: $250,000 an hour. Piqued, David fired off an answering wire: "Presume stipulated fee is for your traditional program of intramural ring-a-ding-dinging with additional fillip of musical lyrics mounted on TelePrompTer. Please advise price for spontaneous discussion." But Sinatra emerged the victor...
...characters of Salinger's most astonishing legend belong to a gaudy and eccentric family named Glass. The chronicle of the clan's fortunes is far from finished (the Glasses have so far made their appearance only in Franny, Zooey, and five other stories), but it is already one of the indelible family sagas to appear in the U.S. The elder Glasses are Irish-Jewish vaudevillians now retired to a life of comfortable reminiscence. Les Glass and Bessie Gallagher, professionally known as Gallagher & Glass, achieved "more than just passing notability on the old Pantages and Orpheum circuits." They are descended from...
...Prayer. The new book concerns a religious-emotional crisis in the life of Franny Glass, youngest member of the clan, and tells how her brother Zooey argues, browbeats and jollies her out of it. Franny is first seen during a football weekend being met at the station by a young man named Lane Coutell. The train pulls in: "Like so many people who, perhaps, ought to be issued only a very probational pass to meet trains, he tried to empty his face of all expression that might quite simply, perhaps even beautifully, reveal how he felt about the arriving person...
...some snap back into sagging Seiberling Rubber Co., Chairman James P. Seiberling, 63, son of the founder, handed the presidency and chief executive title to Executive Vice President Harry Paul Schrank, 58. Schrank's promotion stilled, at least momentarily, the feud between the Seiberling clan and Toledo Industrialist Edward Lamb, who lost an all-out proxy war in 1956 but now holds five seats on the isman board. The move, crowed Lamb, has "my enthusiastic support." Outspoken Harry Schrank, respected by competitors for his gift for spotting industry trends, plans to push diversification in chemicals and plastics...