¶ Into the spreading television puddle leaped Columnist Elsa Maxwell with a squeal and a splash. Hard at work on the Continent, preparing the Elsa Telecruise of Europe for release in the fall, she predicted: "Television is going to kill the radio just like talkies killed silent movies." As for herself: "Although I am not young and beautiful, I know I can stand the television screen . . . My face can express my feelings."
Elsa's Telecruise would include "all sorts of interesting people, from foreign ministers to Christian Dior ... I am going...
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