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...lukewarm, and when it was over at 3:20 a.m., the Great Moment had never quite happened. M.C.s Crosby and Mercer did their best to keep the music flowing as freely as the whisky backstage, but the profusion of talent was largely wasted in the confusion of an erratic format...
...that is unclaimed for three days is opened-an invasion of privacy which may be justified by the number of suitcases that look identical-and its contents are described by Teletype to ARCH headquarters in Chicago. The information is coded according to a standard format that assigns a number to each of the 89 most frequently carried articles: 12 is food, 27 is suspenders, 40 is sneakers. The fuming passenger is read a list of the articles and asked which of them his luggage contained. From there on, it is simply a question of matching up punch cards. Getting...
...Screen. When Johnson first became President, there was endless conjecture among newsmen as to the format he would follow in his press conferences. The talk went that Johnson, unlike Kennedy, did not feel comfortable at formal, televised sessions and would try to develop another system. Up to a point, the talk was right. Johnson fell into the habit of unexpectedly calling reporters into his office on Saturday afternoons, talking to them informally and at length...
...reporters filed out of the oval office, it was apparent to all that these end-of-the-week gatherings around the President's desk were here to stay. Clearly, Johnson thinks that this is the best format for getting across his plans and ideas. There will undoubtedly be more of the formal sessions. But Lyndon Johnson has always liked to get close to those he is trying to persuade, to look them straight in the eye and squeeze their hands. This is more easily done in the relaxed atmosphere of his White House office...
...over half of the Oscar nominees were not there. Hollywood simply is not one place any more. It is now an earth-circling synecdoche. Its personnel are too far scattered to fly to Los Angeles on the mere chance that they might win an Oscar. The mass meeting, 1947 format, no longer works. Hence no one else can be expected to give much of a damn...