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...works of Ralph Nader and John Gardner would be chanted aloud at Evensong in the Savanarola Chapel of Memorial Church...
Bernstein, Barton J., ed., Towards a New Post: Dissenting Essays in American History, New York, Vintage Books, 1969. (Essays by Thernstrom, Young, Gardner, and Smith...
...show lacks substance. The scripts of the original show had to be complex and subtle to fit their material into a single hour. The first 60 episodes were based on entire Erle Stanley Gardner novels, and after the stock of novels ran out, Gardner's script supervision insured the same level of complexity. The new show is simple-minded. Threats of blackmail are explained in detail, then explained again. Paul Drake no longer gives a quick account of the information he has gathered. Instead, he shows home movies of the people he has tailed...
Paisano Productions, which produced the show, made $10 million over nine years. Most of the profits went to the executive producer, her husband and Gardner...
...show called Perry Mason should be an easy money-maker, CBS must have thought. I hope they're wrong. I hope the new show fails before it molds Perry Mason and his colleagues into forgettable characters. The Mason created in 1933 by Erle Stanley Gardner was a volatile, often unscrupulous lawyer-sleuth. Raymond Burr toned the man down, but added a dynamism of his own which made Mason the sort of fascinating static character best suited to an hour-long TV show. Monte Markham, though somewhat better in the second episode than in the first, appears to have whittled Mason...