Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Although in later installments (previewed last week for the press) the program fills the air with Messerschmitts and Supermarine Spitfires, shows Panzer tracks across the tulip beds of The Netherlands and bomb explosions muffled in the soft sands of Dunkirk, the series is much more than newsreel shots and selected...
On election night an impatient Democrat picked up a telephone and called Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel, hoping to persuade the Vice President of the U.S. to concede. Soon he was screaming at a switchboard operator who refused to put him through: "But this is Frank Sinatra!"
Frankie never did get through, but he wasn't kidding. Hollywood was more closely involved with the 1960 election than with any since the politically conscious 1930s. On the Republican side, Actor George Murphy was often called on to warm up audiences for Nixon, and Nixon's final...
Citizen Kane Feeling. Clansman Dean Martin began to put out word that President-elect Kennedy was going to appoint him "Secretary of Liquor." Sammy Davis Jr., a convert to Judaism, had other ambitions: "Sinatra will be Ambassador to Italy," he said. "I'm hoping for Jerusalem, but I'...
Mercedes McCambridge, who helped run the draft-Stevenson group at the Los Angeles convention, labored dutifully for Kennedy during the campaign, last week said bitterly: "I'm tired of democracy. We should have a monarchy, with Tuesday Weld as one of the princesses and a nice couple from Armpit...