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Sooner or later the TV watcher who tunes in on a talk show is likely to decide that he could make more stimulating conversation himself. Harold Greenwood of Minneapolis is no exception-except that he decided to prove the thesis by buying two minutes of air time each week (at $102 a minute) and producing a show with himself as star...
...Greenwood's miniprogram is televised over KSTP in Minneapolis and WDSM in Duluth during the network break in Meet the Press. Called Comment Capsule, it consists of a film interview with a different guest each week. A crewcut, slow-talking fellow, Greenwood, 36, is introduced as the president of the Midwest Federal Savings and Loan Association, but the plug in his "noncommercial commercial" ends there. The real pitchman is the week's visitor, for Greenwood never interrupts nor asks any discomfiting questions. All he does is get the guest started...
...Greenwood, Miss. A family at the dinner table talks casually of how young Billie has that day jumped off the bridge and how before he jumped he and a girl were seen throwing something into the river. The narrator is probably Billie's girl friend. The song, says Bobbie, is a study of the innocent cruelty in the way folks can deal with personal tragedy in the most matter-of-fact terms...
...numbers every spring that they exhaust the oxygen supply in their immediate vicinity and suffocate. Others suggest that plankton-tiny water plants and animals on which alewives feed-suddenly begin dying just as the fish are crowding into coastal waters in the spring. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Biologist Melvin Greenwood theorizes that the alewives are killed by sudden temperature drops caused by violent spring storms that drive colder waters from the center of Lake Michigan into the shore areas...
...thinking of taking a crack at state politics. After all, a lot of folks remember "Delay" right well from his two trials for the murder of Negro Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers in 1962. Both times his peers failed to reach a verdict. Now the gun collector from Greenwood has been scattering publicity shots around the state, will likely announce his candidacy for Lieutenant Governor in next spring's Democratic primary...