Word: miners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Worthington Miner, who has had a hand in producing such TV milestones as Studio One and Play of the Week, told the committee that sponsors often insist on contracts specifying a minimum number of killings or shootings per program. He also went out of his way to serve as a sort of one-man Berlitz course in Madavenue lingo. Example: "longterm recall" is something vital that admen ascribe to viewers who remember a given show for more than, say, ten minutes. But Miner's outstanding contribution was one of those sponsor-interference anecdotes that spring from...
...quote a poignant phrase from Ghandi and then sing We Shall Overcome, which has become closely connected with the integration sit-in movement. Or he will read a poem of Frost about human dignity and play Banks of Marble, which wonders about social injustice: "I have seen the weary miner scrubbing coal-dust from his back, I have heard his children crying 'got no coal to heat our shacks.'" This is the heart of Seeger's politics, not views on the Republican Party or the Democratic Party--or the Communist Party either, for that matter...
Friendly Non-Persuasion. Born in Yugoslavia, Kirchanski grew up in West Virginia, where his father was a coal miner and his mother worked in a factory. At eleven he was forced to go to work because his father died. Still he managed to purr through Detroit's Wayne State University in 2½ years, then shot for a doctorate in political science at Berkeley. When he ran out of money, Kirchanski turned to schoolteaching, was disappointed at slow progress in "airy, friendly" classrooms. By contrast, when he taught convicts, Kirchanski made rapid progress. Public schools, he decided, were...
...mile mark, the mongrel charged at Oksanen, who swerved suddenly and caused Kelley to trip and fall. Sprawled on the road with a skinned elbow and knee, a bleeding hand and a grit-stained face, Kelley got a helping hand from Fellow Runner Fred Norris, 39, a British coal miner turned student at McNeese State College in Lake Charles, La. Said Kelley: "That was a great show of sportsmanship." Said Norris. who never managed to get back in the race: "Somebody should have shot that blasted...
...time Robert was a bachelor approaching 50. But in recent weeks Gardiner had been seen with Eunice Oakes, the striking, thirtyish widow of William Pitt Oakes (who died in 1958, 15 years after the still unsolved murder in Nassau of his father, Multimillionaire Miner Sir Harry Oakes). One columnist even overheard Bobbie gush: "She sends me." Last week the Long Island lord ended the society-page speculation, gave Eunice an olive-sized diamond (plucked from a grandmother's earring), announced that on March 21 she would be to the manor borne. Why the rush? Replied Gardiner...