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Joan Ganz Cooney, 44, revolutionized children's television in 1969 when she began producing Sesame Street for the Public Broadcasting Service. A former NBC publicity director, she now presides over the nonprofit Children's Television Workshop, Inc., which produces 130 segments of Sesame Street and 130 of Electric Company each year. Elegant and outspoken, Mrs. Cooney has served on the President's Commission on Drug Abuse and was recently appointed to the media-monitoring National News Council. In the past year she has formed two C.T.W. subsidiaries to produce shows for commercial TV and ease Sesame Street...
Bound for Glory. Michael Cooney is one of the best contemporary singers of American music. Few know more about the songs they sing and few turn their knowledge into more memorable performances. He is a fine guitarist and banjo player, a splendid raconteur, and a light, engaging singer. The proceeds from this tribute to Woody Guthrie, which Cooney will narrate, will go to research on Huntington's Disease, which took Guthrie's life. The show should be a rare treat. Saturday, March 16 at the Brookline High School Auditorium...
...Crimson skaters, having crushed Providence, 9-3, last Tuesday, will try to vault their second hurdle tonight in the race for their third ECAC Championship in Harvard history. Former coach Cooney Weiland led the Crimson to victory in 1971 and 1963; last year Harvard lost to Clarkson in the quarterfinals...
When these same two colleges meet again in St. Louis, Mo., in the opening round of that city's Invitational Tournament on December 27, you can bet that coach Bill Cleary, then an assistant to Cooney Weiland, won't let victory slip away as easily...
...rumors of the incident spread Cooney and Eaton were persuaded by colleagues the next day to write up a supplemental account. They prefaced it with the disclaimer that they still thought the event "insignificant." But recalling Eaton's demonstration, Zimmerman filed a story to the Journal for the issue of Monday, Nov. 19, saying that Nixon had "soundly slapped" the man's face. In a story for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, James Deakin quoted from the pool account but added a detail that he had personally learned from Cooney and Eaton: "Reporters heard...