Word: mad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Matter of Prestige. Was the President being shielded from controversies by his staff "on the ground that they make you mad and that, therefore, they menace your health?" asked ABC's Edward P. Morgan. With a laugh, Ike replied: "If I have been protected, I, certainly, for one, have not been aware of it . . .1 don't believe that criticism that is honest and fair hurts anybody ... I think I am old enough and philosophical enough to try to separate the personal attacks from those that are honest differences of opinion and conviction. The latter I respect...
...idea called Program Service, a high-class passel of TV shows that Weaver hopes to beam from stations in 15 "great bellwether markets." Aiming to operate above and beyond the ratings rat race. Pat Weaver, anxious to "enlighten and enrich," will soon start sending out signals to "all the mad scientists in the entertainment and information fields to start brewing their heady brews." Meanwhile, Quiz Whiz Charles Van Doren signed an exclusive five-year contract with NBC at a salary "close to $50,000 a year." Though a programing consultant, and possibly a panelist on a new fall show...
...Mad Whirlpool. The spark behind the latest bannings was newly elected Mrs. Earl Maughmer Jr., wife of a police sergeant. She objected to a widely used text called Geography of the World for High Schools because it praised the U.N. in the foreword, also condemned a book which Yale Geographer Stephen B. Jones helped write because one of its chapters bore the title: "It's All One World." Then she went after a twelfth-grade text called Applied Economics because it said that the Government had certain obligations "to promote the welfare of all the people." Said one board...
Sugar & Arrows. By that time, some Aurorans were voicing a lusty opinion of Egan's stewardship. They stuffed sugar into the gas tank of his auto, burned him in effigy, shot flaming arrows into his six-room house. The arrows, some said, came from Indians. "Many people are mad at the mayor," explained one man. "I do not see why the Indians should be excluded...
...like to be patronized by the kindly big shot." Douglas' corrected version: "What I said was, there will always be an audience for slobs like Arthur Godfrey." On a quick visit to Rome, TV Impresario Sullivan, according to a CBSpokesman, heard the original version and got "very, very mad." Just blown in from an African safari, Impresario Godfrey commented through a frozen smile: "My dear friend Paul better come to a little. He owes a great deal to people, just as I do." Meanwhile, Manhattan's Huckster Row was frothing at the mouth even more than usual over...