Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ITEM: Bill Cosby won an award for his performance on I Spy. Granted, Cosby is a fine actor, and he certainly deserves recognition. But let's get Programming to find some Negro of our own and get him written into one of our own dramatic series; perhaps he could be a gardener, or something, who makes witty but penetrating philosophical remarks. (NOTE: He should not, repeat not, play a "heavy.") Meanwhile, Programming should begin work immediately devising an hour series about American Indians or some other noncontroversial minority group...
...ITEM: Millard Lampell, who got an award for scriptwriting, stated: "I think everybody ought to know that I was blacklisted for ten years." Response was positive, applause lasted over ten seconds. Let Personnel search files, find the blacklist I compiled in 1955, hire any three writers on it, then instruct Public Relations to leak story to the newspapers, playing up liberalizing of network, integrity...
...ITEM: The Dick Van Dyke Show got four Emmys. It has just gone off the air for good. Maybe the way to get more awards is to make sure that the program is going to die. Kill any two situation comedies favorably received by critics...
...ITEM: David Susskind was extremely cranky. He complained because Sir John Gielgud was not nominated for an Emmy, even though the show got one. Very effective; mentioned in New York papers. In the future, if any of our producers are given Emmys they are to find something to complain about. If nothing can be found, I will supply complaint...
...years ago, most large states (most Americans live in the nine largest states) had Democratic governors and Republican legislatures. The governors pleaded for liberal legislation, and the legislatures characteristically did nothing. As a result, by 1955 state spending on education (largest item in most state budgets), welfare, and public health was lagging behind the postwar growth in the cost of living and the size of the private sector. In the last ten years, the states have been making up this lost ground. Most notably, expenditures on education have more than doubled as costs rose and the postwar baby boom came...