Word: mickelson
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Director Joan Mickelson seemed to have some trouble with the tiny Agassiz stage, and sometimes her routines border on the monotonous, but considering the grave problem of space, the blocking and direction is highly successful. Music Director Arthur Waldstein deserves large credit for the proper fast pace of the show and the amazing articulateness with which the songs are sung. However the overture is unbearably long, pompous, forced, and dull...
...million worth of gadgets on top of Cadillacs, hotels and barns, at airports, inside train stations and cramped hotel corridors. But unlike the strife-spiced Chicago convention, the show itself failed to measure up to the expensive, flexible coverage accorded it. Said CBS's Convention Boss Sig Mickelson: "The Democratic Convention was hard news; the Republican Convention is soft news...
...Mere Conduits." Butler's blast caught CBS President Frank Stanton sitting in a convention box alongside Harry Truman's, sent him rushing to his network's backstage headquarters. There Sig Mickelson, CBS vice president in charge of the coverage, was already getting up the explanation: CBS had made no commitment to show the half-hour film, actually showed the last six minutes of it after carrying four brief interviews with politicos, fill-ins by four of its commentators, and a one-minute commercial. The network, said Mickelson mildly, was simply "exercising our news judgment" in what...
...sent in code to keep them away from CBS signal-stealers. Boasts NBC's Assistant Producer Robert Graff: "We're going to hit them with every barrel we've got. We're going to be the first and the best." CBS News Director Sig Mickelson, serenely confident, says: "NBC started too late. They're six weeks behind us in all their plans...
Freshman Football--Major football numerals--1956--Thomas B. Kent, Dexter S. Lewis, John T. Maher, William G. Markos, Jan H. H. Meyer, Jr., Jost W. Michelsen, Harvey B. Mickelson, William M. Meigs, Peter F. Morrison, Robert E. Morrison, Richard M. Oehmler, Arthur C. Painter, Jr., John O. Pettiford, Jr., Samuel F. Quarterone, Edward Rosenthal, Kenneth R. Rossano, Sherwin L. Samuels, Peter Summers, Orville M. Tice, William B. Volmer, Arthur M. Warren, Henry H. Gaffney...