Word: interviewer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other minor art, attracts its not-so-artful practitioners. Currently the bluntest instrument of them all is a Los Angeles broadcaster named Joe Pyne, who has become simultaneously the industry's hottest property and, as New York Times Critic Jack Gould recently said, its "ranking nuisance." On his interview shows, Pyne often addresses callers and guests as "stupid," "jerk" or "meathead." An epileptic was once asked: "Just why do you think people should feel sorry for you?" Pyne's standard lines run from "Go gargle with razor blades" to "Take your teeth out, put 'em in backwards...
...should he-when being so nasty makes him so popular? His morning hot-line radio show ranks No. 1 in its time slot among the 90-odd stations in the Los Angeles area. His local weekly TV interview show is doing just as well. Another TV program, taped for syndication, is carried weekly in three cities across the country and 21 more will be added in September. His syndicated radio interviews play daily in 254 cities, with an average ten new stations signing up each week. In addition, Pyne is host of NBC's daily Showdown, a typically mindless...
Adams, who has built his campaign around the Vietnam issue, made his suggestion about Lodge to more than 350 people in Emerson Hall, and then elaborated later in a brief interview. Although he declined to name specific alternatives to Lodge, he commented that the late Adlai Stevenson was the type man he had in mind...
...gave away no vital secrets, but in a newspaper interview Harel did reveal that he personally was on the spot in Argentina in 1960 to supervise the snatching of Adolf Eichmann...
...about 1,000 of the hundreds of thousands of rejected, mixed-blooded "Amerasian" youths who since 1945 have been fathered by American servicemen from Korea to Viet Nam. Mrs. Buck and Harris swung across the U.S. last year on a fund-raising tour that actually turned into one long interview-with the aide asking the questions and the author chattering away about China, love, art, the foundation, and inexhaustibly about herself. The result is her 70th book and her second memoir, which echoes the earnest and vaguely vatic tone of her first, A Bridge in Passing, published...