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Using a similar format, Xerox's course in "problem-solving discussion skills" does for bosses what the selling course does for salesmen. "Most managers," says a Xerox staffer, "are not able to face a subordinate, analyze a problem and reach a solution." To the problem-solving course have come 2,000 employees from Ford, 600 from Westinghouse and 300 from Procter & Gamble. Now offering its lessons mainly to production and manufacturing managers, Xerox is working on a variation for marketing types, will introduce something for general corporate executives late this year...
...perform their liturgical-cum-martial Requiem for the Masses-included in one of their LPs -as a musical playlet, much as The Doors act out the visionary lyrics of The End and The Unknown Soldier. Newcomer Van Dyke Parks has cast his first album in the intricately woven format of a song cycle...
Dollars & Old Shoes. Last week, during his NBC Christmas TV special, Hope played a Santa Claus who gets arrested by Patrolman Phil Silvers for parking on a Los Angeles freeway-hardly a format for getting off cracks about public figures. He did it anyway, by exhibiting gifts from his bag: a special award from the Optimists Club for Harold Stassen; a book of one-syllable words for William F. Buckley Jr.; an electric blanket for Frank Sinatra; a surfboard for General de Gaulle, to be used as a tongue depressor...
...same time, Hope was concentrating on mastering radio. He had misfired on his first guest shots in the mid-'30s. "I tried to do a relaxed, slow format like Jack Benny," he says, "but it wasn't right for me." Slowly, he evolved the technique of the trip-hammer monologue that was to propel him to the top of the Hoo-peratings. On his premiere in 1938, he opened: "How do you do, ladies and gentlemen. This is Bob Hope." That was followed by a single laugh from a stooge in the studio. "Not yet, Charlie," said...
...Some important questions are involved," Glimp said, but a debate "is not a productive format...for understanding surrounding issues...