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...will like, 2) comedy. As for the acts themselves, Ed says, "The best ones are those where two different kinds of people play against each other: if Lily Pons and Pearl Bailey do a duet, Lily sings it straight while Pearl clowns it up." His added ingredient is a shrewd combination of news and human interest. When Arthur Godfrey fired Baritone Julius La Rosa, Ed had the young singer on his show the same week ("There's nothing personal in it-if Arthur got fired, I'd hire him"). The human interest touches are usually emotional. Sullivan presented...
When he walked to the rostrum, in well-tailored, single-breasted navy blue, he could have been mistaken for a shrewd bank president or a shy professor...
...Lonardi & Co. are to rule Argentina without using curfews and threats to shoot, they will have to overcome the workers' fears. Showing shrewd political sense, Lonardi announced that labor "can have as much confidence in this government as in the former . . . The conquests of the workers will be maintained and improved." Gone With the Winter. At week's end the country was mainly peaceful again...
...descent, is on trial for the murder of a girl who died of a heart attack when Angel made a crude pass at her. Glenn Ford, as a young university law instructor who is out for trial experience, takes on the boy's case in association with a shrewd legal eagle played by Arthur...
...newsman to let even a routine tip go by without checking it exhaustively. His hard digging into stories has turned up a handful of beats and earned him the nickname "Bulldog" in the city room. By last week, as a result of Bulldog Brunt's smart reporting and shrewd detective work, the death of Doris Oestreicher was big news on Page One of many a big-city paper, and three people, including Doris Oestreicher's mother, were under arrest for suspected abortion...