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8-10 p.m. Like memtiers of the audience, at home and in the studio, all they do is sit back and watch. They didn't have to rehearse or lake part in the program, and they didn't know what was going to happen next. The show was taped in the Opera House at Kennedy Center on Dec. 5.

with President Keagan and his wife. Nancy, attending. The five guest performers had received the Kennedy Center Honors medals on ribbons placed around their necks the night before at a dinner at the State Department. Walter Cronkite. the former CBS "Evening News" anchorman, is master of ceremonies for the special, which includes still photos and film clips of each guest celebrity in performance or otherwise at work.

are a number of highlights to the show, and audience reaction contributes mightily to the atmosphere. The innocent beauty of Gish. the silent film star, draws gasps from the audience, as does her ride on an ice floe there were no stand-in actors in those days in "Way Down East." Later. Metropolitan Opera soprano Lcona Mitchell sings Mimi's aria from "La Boheme" in tribute to Gish, who played the part in a silent movie version of the opera. There are murmurs of pleasure for Kelly's dancing with Cyd Chansse in "Bngadoon" and Leslie Caron in "An American in Pans." and there is applause for his solo.

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Bui a movement lasts 10 minutes, too long for prime-time television. So it was decided that Istomin would speak about Ormandy and that Stern would play. Stern, knowing that his spot would come between Peggy Lee's singing Please see KENNEDY. Page 21 tABC Van Johnson and Hal Linden is joined by Jean Stapleton, who says she was a "greenhorn" when she was hired by Abbott, the theatrical producer, for "Damn Yankees" on Broadway. They sing "You've Gotta Have George" to the tune of "You've Gotta Have Heart." Pianist Eugene Istomin and violinist Isaac Stern wanted to play a movement from a Beethoven piano-violin sonata in honor of Ormandy.

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