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...radio for a while, but there is nothing in the rumor that I am retiring. Nothing." So saying, Lowell Thomas, 84, informed listeners that he was delivering his last regular broadcast for CBS radio. Since he launched the country's first network news show in 1930, his mellow baritone "Good evening, everybody" and sonorous "So long until tomorrow" reached a cumulative audience once estimated at more than 100 billion. When not at the mike, he found time to write more than 50 books and build a communications corporation-Capital Cities-that controls a coast-to-coast string of radio...
...book ranges from the typical patterns of the 20s (establishing oneself and cutting links to parents) up to the mellow 50s when the "midlife crisis" of fading purpose and strength presumably has been faced. Though the book seems a bit like a sprawling rewrite of the four New York pieces, Dutton feels it has a bestseller on its hands. Sheehy believes she has "made a bridge between journalistic and academic methods." As the author tells it, she learned her anthropological methods from Anthropologist Margaret Mead in a post graduate year of study at Columbia. Sheehy contends that Passages could easily...
...latest record, "Havana Daydreamin'," is just a shade hokey. The title song sounds mellow and all that until the chorus gets repeated once too many times--then it begins to call to mind Dean Martin, among others. Maybe it's that Jimmy Buffett is settling down--he's been in love for two years now with a woman named variously "Miss Jane," J. Slagsvol, and Jane--he co-wrote two songs on the album with her. He's beginning to complain about playing country music, as in "Kick It in Second Wind," when it's one o'clock...
...windy balloon began to lose air fast and sink sloppily back to earth. With loose farts our party sagged and emptied until it was ready to be packed away in the brown plastic bags that Bruce and I had readied. The only people who were left collected in the mellow room, and the late-nighters who would keep it up past the dawn and had only then arrived jammed armchairs with gossip and marijuana before passing on. Sixteen point seven per cent of the Shalimar Six left at nearly 3 a.m. after dancing for six hours, and John...
...confided to his closest friends, he is not at all sure he could have taken it. He is a tougher man today. He has seen a President leave office, the Viet Nam War fail, the U.S. retreat from foreign obligations. Sometimes late at night when he is mellow he chuckles that he may be the only disciple of John Kennedy ("support any friend, oppose any foe") left in town, a double irony since critics like Senator Henry Jackson accuse him of being too soft on the Soviets...