Word: mcandrew
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Died. William R. McAndrew, 53, director of NBC News since 1951, who devised the hugely successful concept of team news coverage (Huntley-Brinkley) and organized a 1,000-man army of network newsmen; of injuries received in a fall; in Bronxville...
...himself. As for Garrison, he charged that NBC was trying to "torpedo the state's case." He also asserted that NBC had offered to pay Russo's expenses if he wanted to slip away to California before Shaw went on trial. NBC News President William R. McAndrew denied Garrison's charges, but the following day Russo told a news conference that he had indeed been offered such help if he agreed to "side with NBC" and help "wreck the Garrison investigation...
When the school's boyish-looking director, Dr. Gordon McAndrew, 38, a University of California Ph.D. who had headed a $2,000,000 project for the slum kids of Oakland's public schools, first heard of the North Carolina plan, he scoffed: "Anybody who'd get involved in that must be crazy as hell." But he did. Now he calls it "the most exciting experiment in education in America today." The thrill, he explains, comes in plucking the slipping student out of his failure-filled environment at the eighth-grade level-"about the last point of intervention...
Teachers Who Explain. Some of the boys dropped out, one because he missed his hunting dog. Of the 140 who stayed, only ten showed little or no improvement in their 3-R skills. The progress of 55 boys was classed as "extremely positive." McAndrew reports that "the vast majority" grew in "poise and responsiveness." A retiring 14-year-old with a thumb-sucking habit turned into a conversational leader. Wrote one mother about her son: "It seems hardly possible how much he has matured. He has found himself." Says Student Dewey Long: "The teachers here explain a subject so that...
Before this year's presidential campaign is over, NBC, CBS and ABC will have spent $25 million on news coverage-triple their 1960 expenditure. Justification is the cash value of prestige. "It's an intangible," says NBC Executive Vice President William McAndrew, "but sales people say that our news image definitely makes sales for the whole network schedule...