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...director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art (TIME, Dec. 29, 1952), author on art and archaeology (The Taste of Angels, Fifty Centuries of Art); of complications after a kidney operation; in Worcester, Mass. Harddriving, high-strung ("I don't relax, I just collapse") nail-biting Scholar-Showman Taylor retired from the Met because his self-imposed burdens "so taxed my nervous and physical energies," but in his 15-year reign, he doubled the museum's endowment (more than $62 million in 1954), doubled its annual attendance (over 2,500,000) and tripled its membership...
...ballyhoo the first birthday of his Oscar-smothered epic movie Around the World in 80 Days, Showman Mike Todd held "a little private party" in Manhattan's ballooned and festooned Madison Square Garden. On the promise of a mighty spectacle plus food, champagne and free gifts (from Japanese dolls to a Cessna airplane), Pitchman Todd conned 18,000 suckers in evening wear into the Garden, conned CBS-TV into paying some $300,000 to carry the shambles to the nation, conned most of the gifts and goodies without cost from publicity-seeking businessmen. When the colossal display of vulgarity...
...Three in the American Literature field at the University: Greenough, and Murdock, and Bliss Perry. Perry, who had made his entrance into the field at about the same time as Wendell, was quite different from his bearded colleague. Possessed of a slow deep voice, he had "nothing of the showman about him--he didn't need to have." He had, Douglas Bush recalled at Perry's death in 1954, "bright blue eyes, a slow smile, a warm and selfless concern with literature and things humane." Perry wrote one of the first favorable biographies extant of Walt Whitman, and edited...
...nightly news show, Murrow conveys, by his choice of items and his showman's command of tone of voice, the news as Edward R. Murrow wants it to be understood. Example: on the State Department's obstacles to travel of U.S. newsmen to China. Murrow's reporting has dripped with disapproval. The Murrow aphorism ("A Word for Today") that closes the newscast is often chosen to make an editorial point. Something as simple as a See It Now shot of a subject's grimace or surreptitious scratch can carry as much condemnation as a Chicago Tribune...
Arranging "an intimate party for some chums," Showman Mike Todd hired Madison Square Garden for the night of Oct. 17 to commemorate the first anniversary of the opening of his movie, Around the World in 80 Days. Arriving from such distant points as England, France and Venezuela, some 18,000 intimate chums will gather to help Mike celebrate...