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discord. The business has changed, she notices; there are ever
fewer outlets in the number of newspapers, magazines, syndicated
columns and radio programs available to the publicist. Television
has had a tremendous impact on the use of media and on the entire
scope of American life and entertainment. There are also, she
feels, fewer great artists around than there were in the earlier dec¬
ades of this century. "They're all too busy to be great; they take
too many engagements, spread themselves too thin. I remember
when Pinza started to do that ... I heard him at Carnegie Hall,
and loved and admired him, but thought, The gold is beginning
to go.' You can't produce art in a minute; it takes time and practice
and rest." Still one gets the impression from conversation with her
that Constance Hope could make a tone-deaf singer a sensation in
a city without a single newspaper or radio station. As she points
out, "If I can't get something done one way, I flnd another way
to do it, until I do it. I never say no."