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...Francisco's KSFO is owned by aging (58) movie cowboy Gene Autry. Though he made his reputation on horseback, Autry now makes hay from horsepower: during commuting hours his station draws 55,000 listeners with detailed reports on traffic conditions. To keep them listening, KSFO has virtually cornered the market on local sports broadcasting, a growing factor in radio. It holds exclusive rights for the baseball San Francisco Giants (who brought along Sportscaster Russ Hodges when they moved from New York) and the football Forty-Niners games as well as University of California (Berkeley) sports broadcasts. The station...
...rock castles moated by the deeps One summer, his spirit choked by 15 years of urban life as a journalist in Manhattan, Russell headed north on the scent of some wave-swept map specks off Newfoundland's and Nov Scotia's stern coasts. Among them were Hay Island, periodically exposed to it roots by the incredible fall of the Fundy tide, and Funk Island, on whose granite crest the great auk passed into extinction. Russell effectively translates for nonislomanes the mystical tug of the secret places offshore, "priceless monuments of primeval earth...
...name, Civil Disobedience, until after his death. Emerson, Thoreau's mentor and neighbor, found his friend's reaction "mean and skulking and in bad taste" and later wrote in his journal: "The State is a poor cow who does well by you-do not grudge it its hay...
...Concerning the historian as participant: In 1892 President Eliot of Harvard notified Henry Adams that he would be the recipient of an honorary degree in recognition of his History of the United States. Adams declined, and urged that the honor be conferred on Nicolay and Hay for their Abraham Lincoln, A History. Eliot replied: "Those gentlemen did not write history, but the historical biography of a man just dead. They were actors in many of the scenes they described, and, therefore, could not be historians. They have prepared invaluable materials for the subsequent historian, and done an admirable piece...
Last May he directed a production of Sean O'Casey's Ploughman and the Stars which received rave reviews in the major English newspapers. In November he directed the British premiere of Julius Hay's Horse...