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Landry decided to apply a showman's standards to the great U.S. indoor amusement. His first "Showmanship Survey" in 1933, in which he gave U.S. stations strict ratings on local enterprise, resulted in gey sers of protest, including a four-page lament from NBC's then President Merlin Hall Aylesworth charging "commercial libel." Landry responded with two more surveys at six -month intervals, after which the survey became an annual event (TIME, Dec. 29). Landry's conclusion about...
Died. Gordon William ("Pawnee Bill") Lillie, 81, long-haired frontiersman, Wild West showman; in Pawnee, Okla. Trapper and buffalo hunter, he was the last surviving leader of the "Boomers," homesteaders who rushed to settle the Indian Territory now Oklahoma...
Died. Sir Oswald Stoll, 75, British showman; in London. Producer, impresario, manager, he had owned or controlled some dozen British theaters and music halls, among them London's famed Covent Garden and Coliseum...
Tall (6 ft. 4 in.), husky (210 lb.), young (33), Adam Powell is handsome, lightskinned, a fluent speaker, a good showman. He went to Colgate University, hurled the javelin on the track team, worked summers as a redcap in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal. After a year in theological seminary, he stepped into a ready-made job as assistant pastor of his father's Abyssinian Baptist Church, whose 14,000 members are the largest Protestant congregation in the world...
...Hollywood trade journal innocently summed the whole thing up: "There is nothing in either dialogue or situation that will cause showman or spectator embarrassment...