Word: edward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mistakenly gave Il Bandito of MAIRAIRMED [Nov. 22] the name of Richard instead of Edward, which may disturb all the junior officers who have called him "Eddy Shoutlaw" for years behind his back...
Massachusetts' Edward Brooke, the first Negro to serve in the Senate since Reconstruction, was a Nixon favorite to take over the Department of Housing and Urban Development, but last week Brooke refused the job. Besides feeling some restiveness about Nixon's approach to minority problems during the campaign, Brooke cherishes his independence in the Senate. A new possibility for HUD may now be Urbanologist Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Democrat...
Self-invited. When the unexpected guest arrived at the party, attired in a trendy grey dinner jacket, blue-grey evening shirt and black evening slippers, a hush settled over the elegant living room. Johnson greeted the diners, who included Attorney Edward Bennett Williams, Actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Designer Mollie Parnis, Playwright Marc Connelly, ex-White House Aide Jack Valenti (now the $125,000-a-year president of Hollywood's Motion Picture Association). Soon Johnson fell into conversation with Williams and two other guests. He reminisced for a bit about the Old West and Artist Frederic Remington...
...arresting segments were buried among too many soporific ones. PBL wasted time too often duplicating the spot news and standard documentary coverage that the commercial networks already were doing thoroughly and more lavishly. There was too much controversy for controversy's sake. And the PBL chief correspondent, Edward P. Morgan, unburdened himself of weekly editorials (always winding up with the line, "That is the shape of this observer's point of view") so flatulent that dial switchers probably thought they were listening to Pat Paulsen parodies...
...experiment. The managers of many of the 130-odd public TV stations that carry PBL protested, on the contrary, that the programming was too avant-garde for their audiences. As the lab seemed to flounder, the Editorial Policy Board, a group of outsiders headed by ex-Columbia Journalism Dean Edward Barrett, became increasingly meddlesome. Also constantly kibitzing was Fred W. Friendly, the former CBS News president who first developed the PBL concept...