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...very little. The most basic of them all is the primary loyalty of a newsman to his paper come hell or high water. A good newsman will let his grandmother burn if a hotter story turns up across town-or so the Hecht-MacArthur legend has it. Hildy Johnson (Bert Convy) is a classic of his breed, a red-hot superscooper. Suddenly he threatens to do the unthinkable. He tells the boys in the city room that he is going to get married, desert his raffish calling and go square in a New York advertising firm. His boss, Walter Burns...
...some extent, fashion publications and advertising agencies are using blacks because of the temper of the times. But photographers have more professional reasons for insisting that black is beautiful. "Negroes photograph better against white," explains Bert Stern-and most pure fashion photography is white-backgrounded to show off the clothes. Milton Greene, famed for his photographs of Marilyn Monroe, adds: "Black models are more willing and able to put out for the camera...
...just as everything looks deadly, writer John Eskow comes up with some creations that are grotesque enough to make it all worthwhile: an NBC memorial program on the assassination of "Miss America" host Bert Parks, an unmentionable comment on Jerry Lewis and muscular-distrophy charity campaigns, a hip black guy who insists on being referred to as "colored" and who hates James Brown, a television writer who dreams up the show "Clap City: the continuing story of a gonorrhea epidemic...
...WIZARD OF OZ (NBC, 7-9 p.m.). Time for everyone to step out once more on the yellow brick road to an enchanting evening in Oz with Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr and Jack Haley. They may not make movies like they did in 1939, but at least they repeat them...
...years earlier by Martin's pianist, Ken Lane. He released it as a single, and Everybody Loves Somebody carried Martin to the top of the bestseller charts for the first time in two years. In 1966, at a Frank Sinatra recording session, Bowen came up with a Bert Kaempfert melody from the soundtrack of the movie A Man Could Get Killed. With lyrics added, the song made one of Sinatra's biggest successes of recent years, Strangers in the Night...