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Snapping his red galluses in the sunshine, he sometimes seemed the same old showman. A Goliath of a man (6 ft. 8 in., 245 Ibs.), he still had some big ideas...
Mimicry, being comedy's sharp elbow in the ribs, usually depends on the mimic's being at a safe distance from his subject -or victim; the more dignified and honored the subject, the greater the advisable distance. But an appealing showman named Elliott Reid flew down to Washington a fortnight ago with nothing less in mind than mimicking President Kennedy for the pleasure of the capital's press corps, most of the Cabinet officers, and the President himself. The result: Kennedy was convulsed, and Good Trouper Reid was once again "discovered...
Luckman designed them both. Though he is 52 and getting puffy, Chuck Luckman still generates the same showman's charm that made him president of Pepsodent at 33, president of Lever Brothers at 37, and woefully out of a job at 40 (largely because Lever lost money after Luckman plunged heavily into new products and inventories...
...journalism's vast landscape dwells a strange colossus-part newspaper, part showman-that has its keepers buzzing with puzzlement and concern. Like churchgoing and weekend barbecues, the Sunday newspaper is a national institution. It is big, boisterous and, for the most part, glowing with financial health. But for all that, it presents a growing problem not only for the men who put it together but for the readers who scatter it across the living-room floor each Sunday. How is the Sunday newspaper changing-and why? What do its editors want it to be? Is it aimed...
...Summer to Remember (Mosfilm; Kingsley) is a Russian film, the 16th in the current exchange program, that will surely surfer at the U.S. box office from the painful pre-release publicity devised by the A-bombinable Showman in the Kremlin. Nevertheless, U.S. moviegoers who care to look behind the headlines at some of the more agreeable aspects of life in Soviet Russia will find this picture a delightful excuse to get in and out of the fallout. Summer tells a hearty, happy, natural, touching and sometimes gorgeously funny story of a little boy's life in Russia today...