Word: facelessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Face to Face. Despite the merger's logic, the Knopf-Random alliance has its startling side. In an era of increasingly faceless publishers, Alfred Knopf and Bennett Cerf are among the few who are known outside the trade, but their personalities are remarkably different...
Essentially, the world has singled out Caryl Chessman from the faceless men on the world's Death Rows because Chessman wrote his way out of obscurity. Most of the men sentenced to death for criminal offenses in the Western world are inarticulate and without the influence that Caryl Chessman's talents as writer and self-taught advocate have brought to his cause. They tend to be, said Governor Brown in his message asking the legislature to abolish capital punishment, "the weak, the poor, the ignorant." But Chessman wrote a bestselling book, Cell 2455 Death Row.* Published...
...Faceless Men. His air personality is 100% integrity. He is a master with a commercial; last week Actress Shelley Winters called him a "method announcer," explained: "You really internalize your material." Murmurs Hugh: "If it isn't right taste-wise, I change it." His appeal to women is vast. Although a critic has said that "he looks like everybody's son-in-law, very sincere and stunningly good at nothing," a typical fan letter from Utica, N.Y. said: "Hugh Downs is what we older women think of as the ideal American...
...diabetic needs insulin," Hugh Downs may not be able to go on serving the master indefinitely. But new horizons are beckoning. This week, turning to acting, Hugh Downs is in Hollywood taping an episode in NBC's Riverboat series. Title of the show: The Night of the Faceless...