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...increasing levity in local news should make the nation feel better informed is another question. TV newscasts, after all, are the major source of news for most Americans. Locally produced news shows-75% of the total on the air-were never models of journalistic achievement. The average half-hour report allots only 16½ minutes to news and editorials. Even without backchat or horseplay, the program is little more than a superficial headline service...
...Footnote on Stardom: The main attraction at a cocktail party held last year for the principals of Love Story and the Boston press was Ali McGraw. She spent the first half-hour seated at a corner table and surrounded by six editors of the Wellesley News. It looked as if the entire staff had shown up to interview her, and one of the girls told me, "She's our most famous alumna since Madame Chiang Kai-shek." Prettier, too, I thought, but the editor sniffed, "Oh, I don't know, she looks thirty...
Huge Creatures. Koch insists that any child can be attuned to poetry by any good teacher. He is now spreading that message by way of lectures and television (The David Frost and Today shows). NET will soon air a half-hour documentary filmed at P.S. 61. Though he has given up a regular schedule at the school (the program continues under Poet Ron Padgett), Koch likes to return every couple of weeks just for the fun of it. On each visit, he is startled to see how small the children really are: "From their poetry, I think of them...
...think I can tell you what I like least about campaigning. It is those small periods of time between events that are totally lost, where it is impossible to do anything. A half-hour here, a half-hour there. You do not want to clutter your mind before a speech; you cannot break away to relax. These are lost moments...
...THIS MAN SMILING? His name is Robert Bowie and he is standing on Divinity Avenue at 1:30 Wednesday morning. Mr. Bowie runs the Center for International Affairs and a bomb had gone off a half-hour earlier in the building where he works. Not a happy occasion, to be sure. But Mr. Bowie stands there, chatting with a dozen reporters who will not leave him alone and, from time to time, he smiles. Maybe it's because the bomb did not get his office. Who knows...