Word: interviewer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people interviewed for a TIME cover take it so ebulliently. Industrialist-Art Collector Norton Simon compared his sessions to a "threeday physical exam at a clinic. You know you'll be poked, probed and punctured, and you'd better tell all because they'll find out anyway." The late Author John Marquand told Reporter Ruth Mehrtens that the interviews were better than being psychoanalyzed. Oceanographer Jacques Yves Cousteau recalls with a shudder, and some slight exaggeration, that he was rarely alone for three months: "Your reporters followed me everywhere. Once I tried to hide in a motel...
...many people are as relaxed as Author Jean Kerr, who remarks: "I didn't bother to be discreet. I thought, if I have to be careful I just won't tell anything. So I told everything." Each interviewer has his own questioning techniques, but what they all strive for is a rapport that will allow the subject to relax enough to show his real character. "It's wonderful if people will talk freely, just bubble on," says Theater Critic Theodore Kalem. "Lauren Bacall happens to be the bar-buddy sort of girl who is easy to talk...
...settlement became possible only after the publisher agreed to chop out as many as 10,000 words from the 300,000-word manuscript, and Manchester consented to turn over tapes of Jackie's candid remarks to him during a ten-hour interview. The tapes will be sequestered for 100 years before anyone will be allowed to hear them...
...phone rang in NBC's Washington studio just as Correspondent Ray Scherer wrapped up a Today show interview with Ambassador-at-Large Averell Harriman. Scherer picked it up only to catch an earful of criticism. "You didn't look as good as he did," the caller complained. "The lighting on you wasn't good." Scherer's critic was neither his wife nor Today's New York producer -it was Lyndon Johnson...
Though a deteriorating balance-of-trade position forced France to halt its bullion purchases last fall, the De Gaulle government has found other ways to keep up its pressure on the dollar. This month, in an interview with Paris' Le Monde, French Finance Minister Michel Debre obliquely suggested that one possible way to assure more international liquidity is to raise the official world price of gold, which has been fixed at $35 an ounce since 1934. Debre's remarks, in which he neglected to point out that nothing has aggravated the liquidity problem more than France...