Word: doerfer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sitting at his White House desk. President Eisenhower listened solemnly last week while a worried, deeply tanned Government official told him about a Florida vacation. Explained John Charles Doerfer, 55, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission: he and his wife had taken an innocent little pleasure cruise last February, six days and nights aboard Lazy Girl, sleek yacht of Big Florida Broadcaster (twelve radio and TV stations) George B. Storer. There was also a free round trip from Washington on Storer's private plane. As chairman of the commission which regulates and licenses all U.S. telecommunications, Doerfer saw nothing...
When the explanations were finished, Ike said quietly: "If you want to offer your resignation, it will be accepted." Doerfer might have got off easier if he had not cruised through hot water with Storer once before. In 1958-long before the rigged quiz and payola investigations-Doerfer told the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight that he had spent a week in Florida and the Bahamas at Storer's expense, and admitted that he had also accepted at least $1,000 worth of airline tickets, hotel bills, fees for speeches, and the loan of a color TV set, from...
Republican Doerfer, a longtime Wisconsin politician and bureaucrat, and a protégé of Senator Alexander Wiley and ex-Governor Walter Kohler, went to Washington in 1953 as a member of the FCC, was elevated to the chairmanship...
...networks were convinced that this was no time to talk back to the FCC. To balance Doerfer's inadequate suggestion, they offered an almost equally inadequate proposition of their own. Every week, the networks promised, each of them would devote at least one hour of evening time to public-service shows. Thus, while guaranteeing the public half an hour more of culture each week than Doerfer called for, they were maintaining their freedom to relegate some of it to the Sunday "culture ghetto...
Puzzled by the politics of this sort of programing, many a listener wondered why the networks had not simply informed Doerfer that their schedules already include more ambitious shows than he was asking for, e.g., NBC's World Wide 60, CBS Reports. Even ABC, lagging far behind, could boast of The Churchill Memoirs. Viewers agreed with Critic Gould that "the notion that a trustee of the public airways is deserving of applause because he reserves for the public weal a total of 2½ hours out of every three weeks borders on the incredible...