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...says a Chicago wire-service veteran, "walks with a stoop-the TV hunch. Any time he straightens up, some TV man screams at him to get out of the picture." John Drieske, the Chicago Sun-Times political expert, was once asked by a TV man to move from his front-row seat at a news conference. Drieske was wearing a white shirt, the man explained, and a colored one would look better. Even when the reporters get their own conference, they can feel the TV sting. After Stevenson's Minnesota defeat, reporters squeezed into corner waiting...
Pinocchio will amuse weekend audiences even if the HDC's front-row claque doesn't attend...
...platform before the altar, the old man sat playing his "tired" old cello with closed eyes. Every seat in the church was taken for the extra-long (2½ to three hours) concerts that are a Prades tradition, and listeners sat or stood wherever they could find breathing space. Front-row center sat Belgium's Queen Elisabeth, noted and knowledgeable patroness of music. Applause was not permitted at the concerts-instead, whenever the audience was moved by a number, it rose in hushed silence at the conclusion...
...apples. The mixture will probably simmer steadily at the box office, even though fussy moviegoers feel they have reached the Berlin point. Singer-Dancer Mitzi Gaynor has a figure that suggests a finely machined set of ball bearings, becomingly encased, and Marilyn Monroe will undoubtedly singe the eyebrows off front-row patrons in her Heat Wave number, in which she bumps and grinds as expressively as the law will allow...
When he was 39, Menasha Skulnik was settled in Manhattan, playing Yiddish musicomedy roles in the Second Avenue Theater. At last he saved enough money to bring, his mother to New York from Poland, and one night bought her a front-row seat. It was her first reckoning with show business since her son ran away from home at eight to become an actor. After the performance, Menasha took his mother to one side. "Well, Mama, what do you think?" Said Mama, with hushed astonishment: "From this you make a living...