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While one editor read the news, the others quipped their way through the facts to get at the nub of the important stories. There was even an Inquiring Reporter-a girl with the engaging name of Novella O'Hara. What gave the program added interest was the obvious absence of calculated showmanship and a willingness to forgo pictorial values for the sake of the news itself. Viewer response was so great that KQED now plans to make Newspaper of the Air a regular weekly staple...
...Instrument, O'Hara...
FICTION 1. The Confessions of Nat Turner, Styron (1 last week) 2. Topaz, Uris (2) 3. Christy, Marshall (3) 4. The Instrument, O'Hara (5) 5. The Exhibitionist, Sutton (8) 6. Vanished, Knebel (9) 7. The Gabriel Hounds, Stewart (4) 8. The President's Plane Is Missing, Serling (7) 9. The Chosen, Potok (6) 10. Where Eagles Dare, MacLean...
...Absence of O'Hara. There was a great deal that wanted altering in lona Station, Ont., the dour, Scot-dominated farming community in which Galbraith grew up. "It was a dreadfully barren existence up there," says his younger sister, Mrs. Catherine Denholm, now a resident of the pleasant town of Elora, Ont. "It was totally arid." William Galbraith, a schoolteacher turned farmer, was a 6-ft. 8-in. giant like his son, but unlike him in other respects. Shy and modest, he nonetheless became a leading light in the local branch of the Liberal Party...
...children were still imbued with their neighbors' stern Calvinist ways. "Sexual intercourse," he wrote, "was, under all circumstances, a sin. Marriage was not a mitigation so much as a kind of license of mis behavior, and we were free from the countervailing influences of movies, television, and John O'Hara." After a not particularly brilliant high school career, Galbraith entered Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph, "not only the cheapest but probably the worst college in the English-speaking world." Starting off in animal husbandry, he wrote his Bachelor's thesis in economics, reasoning that "if the Depression continued, there would...