Word: award
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fifty-year Award...
ITEM: Bill Cosby won an award for his performance on I Spy. Granted, Cosby is a fine actor, and he certainly deserves recognition. But let's get Programming to find some Negro of our own and get him written into one of our own dramatic series; perhaps he could be a gardener, or something, who makes witty but penetrating philosophical remarks. (NOTE: He should not, repeat not, play a "heavy.") Meanwhile, Programming should begin work immediately devising an hour series about American Indians or some other noncontroversial minority group...
ITEM: Millard Lampell, who got an award for scriptwriting, stated: "I think everybody ought to know that I was blacklisted for ten years." Response was positive, applause lasted over ten seconds. Let Personnel search files, find the blacklist I compiled in 1955, hire any three writers on it, then instruct Public Relations to leak story to the newspapers, playing up liberalizing of network, integrity...
ITEM: The writers of the Carol Channing Special won an award. The show was universally loathed, had no laughs and precious little taste. Surely with all our staff we can do as well. Let me see suggestions on the above items, starting Tuesday. Monday I will be in Chicago delivering a speech to the Advertisers Club on "Creative Imagination in Broadcasting." Branch officers are expected to attend...
...received an Award for Distinction 1940 from the American Council of Learned Societies, and in 1966 the Creative Arts Award of Brandeis...