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...need all the help they can get. At last spring's annual Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, Glenn was one of the main speakers, and he surely would have bombed if not for the work of a volunteer humor commando team: Buchwald, Shields, veteran Democratic Political Manager Frank Mankiewicz and CBS News Consultant Richard Drayne. Glenn was a hit. He pretended to praise Walter Mondale for not being "afraid to be sharply critical of the President's policies. Fortunately," Glenn added, "President Carter hasn't taken it personally...
...June, before Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy emceed a fund-raising "roast" of Arizona Congressman Morris Udall-who is renowned as a Washington wit-Kennedy's press secretary, Robert Shrum, asked Drayne and Mankiewicz for some gags. They helped Kennedy steal the show from the five Democratic hopefuls on the dais. Kennedy poked fun at Rollings' heavy Southern accent ("the only non-English-speaking candidate ever to run for President"). And he flicked a good jab at the easiest mark in town, urging that Interior Secretary James Watt be thrown to the wolves "while there are still some wolves...
Though tugged in two directions, the network did not tear at once. Then president Frank Mankiewicz announced an ambitious state of money making ventures to make the organization self-sufficient, vowing to enter any profession except the oldest one" to establish fiscal independence. But these projects required initial outlays NPR could ill afford as Dave Stockman and company were flailing away with budget axes...
Trouble came this spring in a traumatic series of events that uncovered crippling deficits (first estimated at 2 million now at 9.1 million), deposed Mankiewicz and other top management officials, and threw the network into eleventh-hour loan negotiations with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to meet the payroll. While the past several months have shed light on the internal problems of NPR, they have also offered some telling commentary on the fate of a public enterprise in a commercial nation...
...1920s, Ben Hecht received a telegram from Herman Mankiewicz, a friend and fellow writer who had made a pioneering trek from New York to Hollywood. Hecht was firmly advised to do likewise: "Millions are to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots. Don't let this get around...