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...Washington, the President's pen chant for popping into unexpected places left Hal Holbrook, Broadway's vet eran and highly skilled impersonator of Mark Twain, sounding more like Chico Marx. Holbrook was performing for Lady Bird and Lynda Bird Johnson and a group of visiting college stu dents in the White House East Room when the President burst in, rushed up to the platform, grasped the actor's hand and said: "I always wanted to meet Mark Twain." Almost speech less, Holbrook forgot several subsequent lines, blew others, and later admitted: "I was really frightened." Among...
Heavy Demand. Such a story demanded prodigies of professional journalism. From both papers a torrent of newsmen poured out to reinforce the men already assigned to Kennedy's arrival. At the Times Herald, Managing Editor Hal Lewis threw out all of Page One, ordered a new lead and a new head-SECRET SERVICE CHECKS IN VAIN -for the security story; he called for a more appropriate ending on the prewritten story of the visit, which had closed on a happy note. The Times Herald's conditional front-page banner head, linked to Kennedy's upcoming Dallas speech...
There he stood, looking like King Hal at Agincourt, a slim figure in gold staring at the enemy over the backs of his crouching linemen. "Haaaay, set! Hup-ah-hup-ah-hup-ah . . ." Back snapped the ball, and the crowd sucked in its breath. What would he do? Now he was rolling right and fading back as if to pass. He slithered away from one tackier, straight-armed another. Downfield, three receivers zigged, zagged, looked back, zigged again. Back and forth he dodged, now trapped, now loose. But there was no pass. In a spurt of swivel-hipped speed...
DOMINICAN REGIME NEAR COLLAPSE. screamed a New York World-Telegram headline last week. "The government of President Juan Bosch," wrote Hal Hendrix, 41, the Telly's new Latin American correspondent, "may not survive the year." In less than a day, events caught up with the forecast (see THE HEMISPHERE). "How's this for bull's-eye reporting?" asked the Telly...
...Suitor is a crazy little film, crammed with Dadaist episodes and droll vignettes. Much of it has a silent-movie look, almost as if it had been made at the old Hal Roach studios under the direction of a zany genius...