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Concerning the July 1 proposal on prisoners of war by the Provisional Revolutionary Government, Palme told Metromedia Radio on August 18, 1971, that his country was "...long before the Vietnamese came along with this suggestion or this proposal--suggesting a solution along these lines. It's logical because if the withdrawal of troops will take place anyway it's the prisoners who are very important to the American government and, therefore, if you couple them both you could achieve two ends in one stroke...
Died. Armand G. Erpf, 73, Wall Street financier and art patron; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A senior partner in the investment house of Loeb, Rhoades & Co., Erpf was the driving force behind what is now the $183 million Metromedia organization, planned the expansion of Crowell-Collier that ballooned sales from $29 million to $220 million in a decade, made the financial arrangements for the transition of the Sunday supplement from the defunct New York Herald Tribune into New York magazine. Well known as an art patron, his own collection ranged from ancient Chinese snuff bottles to avant-garde...
Every top Hollywood columnist needs a rival with whom to feud, and Haber has found one in Rona Barrett, a TV gossipist for the Metromedia stations. She watches the Barrett show with competitive pride. "Oh, that's all wrong," Haber will scoff at one of Rona's items. Or "I had that but didn't use it." In her success, Haber may face a danger. It was she who wrote in an unkind piece on Barbra Streisand: "Once you are a superstar, there are two choices open to you: you can become a bore or a monster...
...myriad imitators of television's Meet The Press were to be given a generic name, they might well be called Spivaks (after Lawrence, the host, of course). This year yet another species of the genus Spivak - the Novak, it might be labeled - was launched on 15 Metromedia TV and radio stations and eight public-TV channels. Titled The Evans-Novak Report, the program is run by a regular two-man press panel, Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak. Unlike most of the other spin-offs from Meet The Press, it does offer at least one new wrinkle: during...
...quizzed by panels of reporters. He wanted an hour to himself, free of embarrassing questions from the press. CBS, which had ceded Daley nearly half an hour with Walter Cronkite the night after the bloodiest confrontations, refused to grant him a further audience. But Metromedia TV, with an audience in five large cities, and the Chicago Tribune-owned Continental Television Network, with some 7,500,000 viewers, this week will run an hour of Daley's defense...