Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Occasionally, of course, other characters turn up in Doonesbury's world. For a while, one visitor to the commune was a fictional TIME correspondent called Roland Burton Hedley Jr., a handle Trudeau could have concocted from three of the names on our masthead: Los Angeles Correspondent Roland Flamini, Boston Bureau Chief Sandra Burton and Editor-in-Chief Hedley Donovan. In the strip, Correspondent Hedley arrived at the off-campus Doonesbury commune near Boston with instructions from a "Mr. Grunwald," another character possibly borrowed from TIME's masthead, to begin reporting for "our annual 'state-of-the-student...
...story on Trudeau and his Doonesbury crew, written by Donald Morrison and edited by Stefan Kanfer, is by no means an attempt to get even. But the Doonesbury assignment was especially intriguing for Sandra Burton, who along with Reporter-Researcher Patricia Beckert did most of the interviewing for the story. Burton spoke to Trudeau, then talked at length with many of his friends from Yale, some of whom are models for Doonesbury characters. Because of Trudeau's oft-stated aversion to interviews, however, Burton was never able to get him to identify the real-life model, if there...
...disembark. "Miss Hayworth started shouting and waving her arms about," said an airline official. "She did not want to leave the plane." When she finally agreed to go more than a half-hour later, aides quickly spirited her away to the airport health office. Said Hayworth's manager Burton Moss: "She wasn't drunk. She just had one glass of champagne." He added: "Rita hates flying, so she had some tranquilizers. That's why she didn't look her best...
...Mary Burton-Beinecke Bennington, Vt. ... and another man coordinated the reporting and edited the story. It looks suspiciously as if TIME had women do the work to compile the cover story but still had men "put it all together." Why did your effort stop short...
...bill that would have erased most of the tax advantages of investing in movies passed the House last year. It is pending before the Senate Finance Committee and a new attempt to muster votes for it probably will be made in 1976. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Vice President Burton R. Marcus concedes that the current law has bred abuses that "constitute a rip-off and ought to be eliminated." Like other motion-picture executives, however, he is afraid that Congress may enact legislation that would damage the industry's ability to obtain conventional outside financing...