Word: hedley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Damascus last week, Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Hedley Donovan had a two-hour interview with Syrian President Hafez Assad. It was the first that Assad had ever given to an American journalist. Donovan's report...
...that and other insolence, the group's leader, Black Bart (Cleavon Little) is about to be hung. With the noose around his neck, Bart wins a reprieve--from Hedley Lamaar (Harvey Korman), the governor's scheming aide-de-camp. Lamaar convinces Governor Lepetomane (Mel Brooks) to make Bart the sheriff of the peaceful Western town of Rock Ridge. Lamaar figures that the spectre of a black sheriff will drive the citizens away, enabling him to buy their land and sell it at a huge profit to the railroad...
...machinations of a corrupt frontier political machine. With very little help, he manages to save the citizens of Rock Ridge from being driven away so that a railroad may pass more cheaply through their land. But so what? The important thing is that the chief villain is named Hedley Lamarr, and the actors insist on mispronouncing his name; that at a town meeting an anguished citizen complains that "people are being stampeded and the cattle raped"; that a black labor gang, ordered to sing a Negro spiritual by their straw boss, respond with a nice arrangement of Cole Porter...
...informal meetings in the fall of 1972 with thinkers in Los Angeles. This month 19 top editorial Time Inc. staffers met in the library of the Harvard Faculty Club in Cambridge, Mass., with scholars in several disciplines. The purpose of the seminars, as envisaged by Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan, was to explore the problems of a "post-Watergate America...
...Hedley Donovan's Essay on "The Good Uses of the Watergate Affair" [May 14] is the most brilliant, illuminating and sustained dissection of the strength that is the American democratic "system" that the free world at large has ever had the good fortune to read, ponder and digest. CHARLES H. SMITH Hamilton, Bermuda...