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...football, after all, is show business-and everybody knows that there is no showman like an old showman. At 37, Quarterback Y. A. Tittle of the New York Giants is only two years younger than Jack Benny; he wears high-button cleats, laments his departed hair, and eats meatball sandwiches before each game because he thinks they bring him luck. At 33, Giant Halfback Frank Gifford is the man in the collar ads, the face that launched a thousand razor-blade commercials. Each has a special talent: Tittle throws a football better than anybody (60% completion average, a record...
...WORLD'S GREATEST SHOWMAN (NBC, 8:30-10 p.m.). The fabulous career of Cecil B. DeMille, with excerpts from his most famous movies and appearances by some of his stars, including Betty Hutton, Gloria Swanson, James Stewart and Bob Hope. Color...
...Showman's Way. But even the tales of Scheherazade were finally exhausted, and last week the First Lady landed at Washington's National Airport, where the President and their two children were waiting. There was applause for Jackie when she arrived. But it was a rapidly developing little politician named John F. Kennedy Jr. who stole the show. Even before his mother arrived, John delighted curious airport spectators by mischievously snatching a Secret Service man's hat and pulling it ludicrously down over his own ears. Sister Caroline beat him up the ramp of the family plane...
...various reasons, reluctant to go to jail, sit in front of bulldozers, brandish placards, or even wear obtrusive lapel buttons. A gathering of such fastidious people met last June in the town house of Mrs. Louis S. Gimbel Jr., a New York social and philanthropic leader. Among the guests: Showman Billy Rose, Singer Lena Home, Broadway Producer Leonard Sillman. The purpose of the gathering was to talk about what celebrities could do to help the civil rights movement. All agreed that there was a need for some kind of civil rights emblem, perhaps a lapel button, that people of taste...
...credo, Für Weill, written in chalk against a black wall. With an excellent Weillian pianist named Abe Stokman to accompany her, she approaches each of Weill's many moods, relying only on her powerful gift for expression to keep the chameleonic program together. Will Holt, a showman who shares the stage, does his bit in the wicked-wise style common to Weill-Brecht productions, but Schlamme's dulcet performance enriches the irony Weill's Berlin songs depend upon. Her voice never sugars the music or weakens the words. Even at its prettiest, as an English...