LBJ welcomes Danny Kaye, Judy Garland, Carol Burnett and Richard Adler to his Vice Presidential office (with bathroom visible), November 1962: #JFKL
Danny Kaye enjoys a sit in JFK’s rocking chair with Presidential portrait in Oval Office, November 1962 (with Kennedy’s military aide General Chester Clifton as minder):
Judy Garland enjoys a smoke while leaning against Resolute desk, while JFK and Dave Powers shoot the breeze with Danny Kaye, November 1962. From White House, JFK sometimes called Garland in L.A. and asked her to sing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” to him over telephone: #JFKL
“Most Exciting Program Ever Staged!” 1962:
List of “Entertainers” for JFK, Madison Square Garden, 1962:
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JFK spoke at United Nations sixty years ago this week, three years after Alfred Hitchcock defied UN rules to covertly film important scenes for “North by Northwest” there:
Cary Grant and the ill-fated “Lester Townsend” in scene shot in studio for “North by Northwest” (1959) but intended to be at United Nations Visitors’ Lounge:
Cary Grant in “North by Northwest” (1959) with Ed Platt, who later played “the Chief” in “Get Smart!"
Sixty years ago, Newsweek warns of “Thunder on the Right," led by Major General Edwin Walker (who in 1963 was evidently shot at by Lee Harvey Oswald, who called himself “Hunter of Fascists," while at home in Dallas):
At Love Field in Dallas, right-wing General Edwin Walker, who ran for Governor of Texas, 1962—although real life, it looks like a scene from a Frankenheimer movie:
The guy behind General Walker at Love Field in 1962 looks like the right-wing Senator Johnny Iselin character in Frankenheimer’s “Manchurian Candidate” (1962):
Billboard #1 sixty years ago today was “Michael, Row the Boat Ashore” by the Highwaymen. Any small children with that first name, then or later, may have heard more of that song than they may have wanted.
According to Social Security Administration, Michael was the most popular name given to American boys almost every year from 1954 through 1998.
Michael Learned played Olivia on “The Waltons” (1972-1981):
Warmest thoughts and prayers for the family and thanks for the many accomplishments of former Senator Adlai Stevenson III of Illinois (1930-2021). I had the honor of delivering Senator Stevenson's mail and operating his Xerox machine as a 16-year-old intern in his DC office.
I once heard Senator Stevenson joke about being a young political candidate who had to audition before a Chicago boss in the boss's saloon. Stevenson recalled being pleased to overhear the boss say afterwards, “Well, the little ___ wasn’t as bad as I expected!!"
The Chicago boss for whom Stevenson auditioned was the locally famous Alderman Paddy Bauler [center], who operated a speakeasy during Prohibition and was later best known for crowing, “Chicago ain’t ready for reform!"