Word: willingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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¶Kennedy will revive F.D.R.'s old Fireside Chats to the nation on TV. He will call the series "Coast to Coast with the Holy Ghost."
Co-producers of the 1961 extravaganza will be Sinatra and Lawford. The idea for the big show came from Philadelphia Contractor Matt McCloskey, the Democratic Party's national treasurer. "Frankie's an old friend of mine," explained McCloskey. "He told me, 'Matt, if you want me to...
"We've already sold out the 72 boxes, which seat ten people, at $10,000 a box," cried Pee-tah Lawford. "This will be the biggest take in show-business history for a one-nighter." Added Frankie: "We expect to raise $1,700,000 for the one night. There...
Even more indicative was the noncommittal comment of President-elect Jack Kennedy: "It is an interesting and constructive study, which I know will be carefully analyzed by the Congress and the incoming Administration." At week's end the word around Washington was that Kennedy had no intention of submitting...
So anxious was the Supreme Court to make sure that its decision would not reach too far, it took the trouble to specify about limitations. "We are not holding," wrote Justice Hugo Black for the majority, "that every time a bus stops at a wholly independent roadside restaurant the act...