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...Eyes. He has stormed at pretension and what he considers meretriciousness or bad taste. His two daughters, Bridget, 7, and Kate, 6, are not allowed to watch "shoot 'em up" shows or waste a minute on Soupy Sales, a slap-sticking echo of vaudeville who appears on TV's children's hour. The first time that Ed Sullivan booked the Beatles, O'Brian praised the act. But after the air waves filled with Beatle imitators, he called a halt. "If this vast musical wasteland, this sump, continues," he wrote in his column, "it inevitably will encourage...
...halfway through taping the two-part MacArthur series last March, he heard that MacArthur was gravely ill. "I'm going to die soon too," he snapped as he ordered the show to go on. "We're both old men. This is history." This free-swinging, give-'em-hell attitude makes Truman's vendetta extraordinarily lively television, at the same time giving the whole series the somewhat dubious hue of yellow journalism...
...Cliffe cheer the ten thousand in the Stadium. Though the prospects are remote, their practices sound like they mean it. The ancient walls of the Radcliffe Gym resound with their cries and Patriot anthems, and few go away unimpressed by the obvious sincerity of their "mash 'em" cheer...
...Evans at first appeared withdrawn and diffident. At one point, visiting a highly automated Spokane factory, he spent more time examining the machines than he did shaking hands with workers. "My managers had to push me away," Evans recalls, adding wistfully: "But those machines were fascinating."57-Count 'Em. As the campaign continued, Evans wound up as a public personality, came off to advantage in a series of debates by articulating his moderate Republican stance. He frankly suggested that he would pattern his administration after the successful and vigorous record of G.O.P. Governor Mark Hatfield in neighboring Oregon...
...other year, with Johnson not on the ticket, Kerner would almost certainly have lost to Percy, a real go-out-and-get-'em guy. But in 1964, Otto Kerner did pretty well just by sounding as much as possible like Lyndon Johnson. And Johnson would have been proud of Kerner's post-election statement: "We must continue the atmosphere which has brought new unity to our people, a unity that knows no Cook County way to build a greater Illinois, no downstate way, but a united...