Word: listed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When I received your July 22 issue, I promptly threw it in the wastebasket. Surely the cover should be reserved for people who have been worthwhile in the world? Please remove my name from your subscription list...
...complaints find their way to Stockton Helffrich, 45, who as head of the network's continuity acceptance department also wields the censor's pencil. Says Helffrich: "If every special interest were to constitute a new entry in a list of taboos, we'd have to go out of business." Helffrich, like CBS's Herbert A. Carlborg, carefully weighs each beef and tries, where justified and feasible, to do something about it. For example, he makes writers, producers and directors aware of complaint trends and of requests by such groups as the American Foundation for the Blind...
...last week, the New York Herald Tribune ferreted out the newest name on the growing list: Clarence Randall, 66, retired head of Inland Steel Co. and special assistant to the President on foreign economic policy. Randall was offered the Pentagon. He had turned it down cold...
Court has a thorough and complete knowledge of what could and would be done under the bill. And likewise, I suspect that the A.D.A., the N.A.A.C.P.'s Gold Dust Twin, has at least guilty knowledge." Nor were these all the plotters. Heading the list: Attorney General Herbert Brownell, "of whom the bill would make a 20th century American Caesar...
...Steve Allen, sometime author (FOURTEEN FOR TONIGHT), was merely trying to enliven an Authors' League of America dinner, but he planted the germ seed of a new lazy man's parlor game when he introduced Allen's Scrambled Book List. Some samples...