Word: john
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PINK CADILLAC Directed by Buddy Van Horn; Written by John Eskow...
Many of Baker's professional anecdotes are familiar, including the still valuable cautionary tale about the late W.H. Lawrence, the Times's White House correspondent whose friendship with John F. Kennedy resulted in gushy coverage that embarrassed the paper and eventually led to Lawrence's departure. It is impossible to avoid dated material in a reminiscence. It is also difficult to write an autobiography when one has been more an observer than a participant...
...games people play, or about to go abroad, anyway. Suddenly the globe is ready to play ball, with the Soviet Union leading off. In their hearts, the Soviets probably still think they invented baseball, or lapta, an innocent steppes-child that supposedly predates both British rounders and Tommy John. But the bench jockeying has quieted considerably since the Reds dropped an April game to the U.S. Naval Academy, 21-1, and their coach was heard to mutter, "Throw to second, not first. Second is the one in the middle...
ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITORS: Richard Duncan, Karsten Prager, John F. Stacks...
...last block of , time, hoping to recreate a scene similar to the one a few days earlier, when viewers saw Chinese officials ordering Rather off the air. Sure enough, that night's CBS EVENING NEWS showed Rather at his anchor desk in New York City, interviewing Beijing correspondent John Sheahan. When Sheahan's picture suddenly disappeared from the screen, Rather abruptly cut him off in midsentence, even though Sheahan's telephone connection remained intact. "We timed it so that if ((the satellite)) did get cut, it would happen during the report," admitted producer Lane Venardos...