Word: goode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to the charges filed, Harris, a good reporter-rewriteman (New York Daily News) turned public relations man, last month approached Long Island Newsday Reporter Robert W. Greene with a proposition. A Harris client-John J. O'Rourke, boss of the New York Teamsters-was up for trial on a charge of jukebox racketeering. Greene had already been assigned to cover the trial, and by his account, Curly Harris, who is also a press-agent for Jimmy Hoffa, suggested that it might be worth $5,000 to Greene if he wrote gently about O'Rourke...
...learned a lot about life. I've learned a lot about myself, and about the responsibilities any man has to his fellow men. I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be. I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception. The fact that I, too, was very much deceived cannot keep me from being the principal victim of that deception, because I was its principal symbol. There may be a kind of justice in that. I don't know. I do know, and I can say it proudly...
...broadcasting hours stretched out from predawn to long past midnight, the networks gradually turned to outside packagers to fill up the schedule. Partly this was due to pressure from the Justice Department, which in 1956 threatened antitrust action unless the networks gave independent producers a better share of good TV time. More significantly, in cutting back network-originated production 20% between 1956 and 1959, NBC was able to slice its "creative" payroll, slash overhead...
...crowd-pleasing filmed series, westerns, cops, crime. Kintner feels that he had no alternative if he wanted to save ABC from being crushed by its two bigger competitors. During Kintner's presidency, ABC added 60 stations, boosted ratings. Kintner signed up Disneyland (for $2,000,000), built a good newscasting staff, including John Daly. He also turned down a chance to sign up The $64,000 Question: "It didn't seem to make sense-not, I hasten to add, because of moral grounds...
...powerful pre-World War II Polish politician and Cabinet Minister; who fought Russia during World War I, Germany during World War II, Communists after V-day, finally fled to England where he rejected a British pension, said: "One has to accept the bad things of life with the good"; in London...