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...pointed out that the Post had faced no deadline in preparing the "fix" article. Yet despite a denial from Butts, the magazine had taken not even the most elementary steps to verify its story. The original source had been an Atlanta insurance salesman and convict ed check forger, George Burnett, who was accidentally plugged into a phone call between Butts and Bryant. No Post reporter even looked at Burnett's notes of the conversation before the article was published. Nor did anyone interview a man who was in the room with Burnett during the call. No attempt was made...
EMMY AWARDS PROGRAM (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Television toasts its own, with Hugh Downs hosting in New York and Joey Bishop holding forth in Hollywood. Lucille Ball, Barbara Stanwyck and Carol Burnett are among the presenters...
Maude Hutchins writes like a lascivious I. Compton-Burnett. Her book is almost all dialogue-voices, echoes, whispers-misunderstood, unheard, ambiguous. Somehow she manages to remain irreverent and even lighthearted about the transgressions she describes. In her eleventh book, she seems more and more like a naughty little girl herself, eavesdropping on man's folly and shouting the embarrassing words for everybody to hear...
...Foote, Cone & fielding: "The younger generation we have today does not respond to the unreal, the phony. This generation has grown up with advertising, seen it all their lives and has developed an ennui with all the beautiful faces thrown at them." Adds Adman Hooper White, of the Leo Burnett Agency: "Today's TV commercials are an outgrowth of the 'new wave' of French films. They encouraged us to get away from stereotypes and start using nonprofessionals...
Born. To Carol Burnett, 32, TV's antic ugly duckling, and Joseph Hamilton, 37, TV producer; their second daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif...