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...Hersey's restrained, first-rate reporting, was the biggest thing in New Yorker history. Book Critic Lewis Gannett called Hersey's piece "the best reporting . . . of this war." The New York Times, Herald Tribune and leftist PM applauded solemnly. Manhattan newsstands sold out early on publication day. Showman Lee Shubert tried to get the dramatic rights. In Princeton, N.J., the mayor asked all citizens to read the piece. Knopf planned to publish it as a book. A radio chain wanted Paul Robeson, Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, and Katharine Cornell to take turns reading the 53-page article...
...Scandals) got a one-year prison term and $600 fine for hit-&-run driving. He had been asleep at the wheel, he said, when his car killed a honeymoon couple a month ago. The fine was paid by an exmarine, who said he was doing it because the showman had sent him parcels in a Jap prison camp. White said his own bankroll was only...
...Showman AND Musician...
...issues, mudslinging and free watermelon to stock half a dozen southern Democratic primaries. But the voters who worked the polls in record numbers last week seemed vaguely dissatisfied. The trouble was that the main event, the 14-man fight for the gubernatorial nomination, had produced no first-rate political showman. If there is anything a Texan abhors it is to have his candidates turn out less flamboyant than the issues they hawk...
Symphonic Showman. Last week Cugat, who is now a paunchy 46, signed a contract to play an eight-week symphonic concert tour of 50 U.S. cities for $5,000 a night. Top attraction at each concert will be Cugat's own symphonic Latin Suite in three movements (Afro-Cuban, bolero, and conga). If the tour pans out, he plans to give up nightclubs altogether. For the trip, Cugat will add a dozen violins, two cellos, two violas and two basses to his regular nightclub assortment of 32 marimba, maracas, fiddles and horns...