Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Herald Tribune already has one of Manhattan's most readable sport sections, backstopped by literate Columnist Red Smith, a fine drama critic in Walter Kerr, plus a strong stable of pundits-Walter Lippmann, the Alsops, Roscoe Drummond, David Lawrence. Under Brownie Reid, the Trib has opened a Moscow bureau (cost: $75,000 a year), staffed by able B.J. Cutler. Under longtime Associated Press Correspondent Don (The FBI Story) Whitehead, its Washington bureau in the past two years has turned in many a solid reporting job, such as the series last year by Tom Lambert and Robert S. Bird...
...Jean Kerr is a tall (5 ft. 11½ in.),, witty free-lance writer (Harper's Bazaar, New York Times) and playwright (Touch and Go, King of Hearts) who writes mostly in her green Chevy-a sort of mobile workshop that she parks on side roads near her Larchmont home "to escape housework, interruptions from the kids and television." But last week Writer Kerr had to do her writing at home-before the TV-because she had been asked to take vacationing Critic John Crosby's caustic TV corner in the New York Herald Tribune (for which...
...Critic Kerr is tortured by the feeling that she is "out of touch culturally" and never sees the same TV that other people see. "For one thing, we have one of the first sets ever built, which means that if you squat so close to it that your knees rub against the dial buttons, you can almost see Ed Sullivan. We cling to it, all ten inches of it, because we imagine that any minute now it will be valuable as a collector's item. Pull out those tubes, plant it with philodendron, and there's your conversation...
Robert Meyner, sharing 2% with such as Oklahoma's Senator Bob Kerr...
...Kerr's conception is more than American; it is universal, and without beginning or end. Kerr's Goodchild, while an American Odysseus and Natty Bumpo, is also a race-memory of the desire for freedom inherent in man's soul from the dimly-remembered dawn of pre-recorded history. Goodchild's successful conquering of his own soul and youthful vigor symbolize the constant reincarnation of man's unquenchable spirit; the white dove of his lofty aspirations columns heavenward, linking Classic and American aspirations, and those of all eternity