Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sarge, baby, you're a real swinger," cried Murray the K, hoisting his Beatle boots onto Sargent Shriver's walnut conference table. What was Murray the K doing in the office of the Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity? Well, he had an idea for reaching the U.S.'s more than a million school dropouts and unemployed kids with a TV program that would really grab them where they lived. Where they lived, said Murray, was with the Supremes and the Righteous Brothers and Cannibal and the Headhunters. And in between sets, Murray would...
...About to Throw Up." One hard day's night over the whole CBS network last week, the big-beat spectacular happened just the way Murray planned it. A breakneck succession of 23 Scopi-tone-like acts in 90 minutes. A bill reading like Billboard's "Hot 100" and sounding, to adults, like 76 air hammers. The Ronettes playing stickball on Manhattan's Mott Street. Little Anthony and the Imperials mock-"bopping" on the stage of the Brooklyn Fox. Gary Lewis and the Playboys blowing up a squall on the beach at California's Abalone Cove...
...laying on of the words, the critics took care of that next day. Only they weren't good. The unanimous verdict: Sarge baby, and CBS, which picked up the tab for the time and the $250,000 production cost, had been taken in by self-promoting Murray the K. "Uncle Sam done flipped his wig," said the New York Herald Tribune. Republican Congressmen were indignant -in fact, "almost incandescent in their fulminations," reported Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen following a G.O.P. policy-committee luncheon. Colorado's Republican U.S. Senator Gordon Allott phoned CBS President Frank Stanton and announced...
Whitener certainly represented the vast majority, yet under the standards of a democracy, which hold that all men are equal, his argument was open to question. As Catholic Theologian the Rev. John Courtney Murray has said: "Human life has a basic sacredness whether a person holds high office or whether he is among the humblest." Only recently, New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller, reluctantly signing a bill abolishing the death penalty in New York except in the case of cop killers and life prisoners who kill guards or other inmates, asked pointedly: "If the proponents admit that...
...Died. Murray Ireland, 72, president from 1954 to '60 of McGraw-Edison's Toastmaster division, a designer-engineer who in 1925 adapted for domestic use a bulky device formerly found only in restaurants, which lowered a slice of bread, grilled it, and at just the right moment popped it up, golden brown (or black), bringing sales of untold millions over the next 39 years; of a heart attack; in Elgin...