Word: freedman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Researcher & Freedman. All this fustian unfortunately belies the actual writer inside-a hardworking, competent journeyman whose dedication to his profession is genuine. A Child Is Waiting is an original Abby Mann screenplay (actually based on an Abby Mann TV play) about retarded children. When Paramount Pictures insisted on using Hollywood kid actors instead of retarded children themselves, Mann emptied his bank account to buy back the option to the script. He wanted real retarded children to show how close to normal they are, or seem...
...Washington last week, the Manchester Guardian's brilliant, bookish Max Freedman attended an Old Vic performance of Saint Joan at the National Theater and escorted an old friend-Jacqueline Kennedy. The week before, Freedman sat down in the White House for a chat with another old friend-John F. Kennedy. Rated by his peers as the best foreign correspondent covering the U.S. capital, Max Freedman boasts channels of communication that few of them can match. But even those on less familiar terms with the President and his wife share Freedman's conviction that Washington is the best news...
Unbeatable British. No one understands better than President Kennedy the importance of Washington's foreign newsmen. Shortly after taking office, he added a foreign press assistant (Jay Gildner) to the White House staff-the first such presidential assistant in U.S. history. Freedman, Brandon and Imhoof are clipped for the President's attention, and his aides take regular readings on everybody from France-Soir's Adalbert ("Ziggy") de Segonzac to Masaya Miyake of Japan's Asahi Shimbun...
When Accuser Lisagor paused for breath, Max Freedman, capital correspondent for England's Manchester Guardian, tired from another flank. The conference format, said Freedman suavely, is rich in ''entrenched blunders," but thanks to Kennedy's rhetorical skill, "the structure of the English sentence is no longer left as a dishonored casualty." Freedman generously split the blame for the conference format's failure between the reportorial inquisitors-"the only class appointed without an examination to conduct cross-examination"-and President Kennedy, who is compelled to endure "the ultimate cruelty of thinking aloud under pressure...
...HRLU executive committee elected Robert L. Freedman '62, of Adams House and Philadelphia, Pa., as president at a special meeting last night. Former president Peter D. Livingston '62 resigned recently because of "disillusionment with College politics added to the pressures of academic work...