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...songs she has sung a hundred times before without a pulse of feeling; but suddenly now they crush her heart and she flies into the street again. Death is everywhere: in the broadcasts from Algeria, in the movie she drops in on, in the jaws of the street-corner showman who cheerily passes the hat as he swallows frogs alive...
Everybody's Business. Today's pro golfer is part showman, part TV personality, part salesman, a walking Chamber of Commerce for the fastest-growing sport in the U.S. Baseball and football may still be the great spectator sports, but athletes of all ages can-and do-play golf. This year, according to the National Golf Foundation, 6,000,000 Americans will take club in hand to play more than 90 million rounds of golf on 6,718 U.S. golf courses, most of them public courses or semiprivate clubs that charge a daily fee. The rich...
...Paul Freeman: "The population increase is still going on. That didn't stop Monday or Tuesday, and it means there'll be good business in the future. The only complaint I have is that my brother-in-law bought A.T.&T. lower than I did." Observed Millionaire Showman Billy Rose, a fabulously successful investor who saw the value of his 80,000 shares of A.T.&T. drop by $760,000 in one day: "I'm not worried about the future of A.T.&T. It's as good an investment as the U.S. itself-it owes...
...letter writer neatly summed up Pusey in the Crimson: "His great flaw-and this is what all the criticism reduces to-is that he is neither a politician nor a showman. President Pusey does not dramatize his actions; he is just an honest man trying to steer this university in the right direction...
They ought to put a 20-lb. weight on him, handicap him like a race horse, to give the rest of us a chance." At 32, Palmer is a hero out of Runyon -a passionate gambler, an electric showman. His desire to win is so strong that finishing second-even though it makes him rich-is only a little less distasteful than finishing last. "The desire is the thing," he says. "You have to keep yourself under control, to believe in yourself...