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Finally, Joe himself, accompanied by wife Jean, made a "surprise"' appearance. The place went wild. On the speaker's platform, McCarthy waxed emotional, flourishing a white handkerchief in front of his nose. There was some doubt as to whether he was weeping or merely flushing his bad sinuses, but the gesture was the signal for many of the women to burst into tears...
When he feels he has "really" played music, Brubeck seems almost in a kind of trance. It happened at a recent recording session. Dave finished in a fever, grabbed a handkerchief, wiped his face and ran to the wall as if he wanted to burst through it. Paul laughed aloud, followed him and spun him around. Brubeck was laughing, too, great yelps of laughter. He threw his arms into the air, drunk with music. A photographer who happened to be there was caught up in the excitement. "You're hot," he yelled...
Batter Up. Nothing happened for a moment until Montgomery belatedly flagged Ike with a white handkerchief, and the President broke into a broad grin. The heart of Ike's speech was his program. The program, he said, had been contained in 64 proposed bills. Said Ike: "Now 54 of them were enacted into law. We didn't always make home runs but we did have 54 hits . . . Now that, after all, is a batting average of .830. And any baseball fan will tell you, that's pretty good going in any league." He recalled some...
...tremendous problems ahead in a season loaded with adapted drama. Adapter Sanford Barnett, prohibited by space and time limitations from imitating the far-ranging freedom of movie cameras, had to cut the film script down to a sentimental skeleton. The original film had been aimed at the handkerchief trade; on TV the tear jerking scenes came as fast as in any soap opera. To compensate for his lack of mobility, Director Kulik borrowed heavily from Hollywood's sob expert, Ralph Edwards (This Is Your Life). Just like Edwards, the Lux show employed a tremulous, offstage voice to say such...
...court daily in a well-pressed white linen suit and a red carnation in his lapel.; Greek Communism, he told the court, owed its allegiance to the Kremlin and Nico Zachariades. He took the stand only once in the nine-day proceedings. Then, toughing softly into a bloodstained handkerchief, he limited his remarks to a textbook eulogy of world Communism and an attack on "American imperialism...