Word: monitored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wrote Columnist T.R.B. (the Christian Science Monitor's Richard L. Strout) in the rabidly anti-Nixon New Republic: "On the Nixon caravan everything goes right, on the Kefauver Special everything goes wrong . . . With genuine perplexity Republican columnists ask, 'Why is it people dislike Richard Nixon?' Honestly we don't know. We puzzle about it. Maybe it is because he flashes his smile off and on so like an electric light. (Kefauver rarely smiles or laughs or anything; occasionally there is a wide, quarter-moon grin...
Their gripes reached print on Friday last week when Richard L. Strout wrote a satirical piece in the Christian Science Monitor entitled "Boss: Anybody Seen That Adlai?" Stevenson, Strout wrote, "is an agreeable fellow to have around, because he makes entertaining comments. But he isn't around very much so far as newspapermen go." He maintained that little things have been going very wrong in Stevenson's campaign which more efficient organization could easily eliminate. And the next day a more serious column appeared in the New York Herald Tribune dispelling the initial August optimism that surrounded the announcement...
...just a matter of time before he would boost himself right out of a job. As president. Pat Weaver's career was as spectacular as the TV "spectaculars" he invented-which were sometimes spectacular flops. He experimented relentlessly and volubly with new ideas (Wide, Wide World; Monitor; Today; etc.) that got good critical notices, but NBC's total billings were dragging their heels. As chairman of the board, Weaver was supposed to "work as a team" with new President Robert Sarnoff (TIME, Dec. 19). But he soon discovered that his part of the teamwork gave...
...reporters just let the pundits talk (complained ABC's Martin Agronsky: "There's no fight here and I'm not going to make one"). ABC lined up an able but monotonous panel of experts: Author Quincy (The World We Lost) Howe, Erwin Canham (Christian Science Monitor) and Ernest Lindley (Newsweek). CBS's Sevareid-Murrow duo this time worried less about making history than reporting it, and NBC laid on durable old (78) Hans V. Kaltenborn (it was his 18th convention) with his blackboard doodlings and a lofty contempt for all the fancy new gadgetry...
...lack of old-fashioned fun. John Daly reported: "Mr. Rostrum stands in recess." Will Rogers Jr. (CBS) wound up a Stevenson interview with "Thank you very much, Governor Harriman" (Retorted Adlai: "Goodbye, Dave Garroway!"). Crooner Johnny Desmond muffed the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner, and NBC's Monitor introduced Mrs. Roosevelt as "Eleanor Stevenson...