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Anything Else. Brooklyn-born Sam Resnick was a jolly, roly-poly man, a prosperous retail jeweler. Through the years he parlayed his Newburgh, N.Y. shop into a chain of ten stores. He did a big business in West Point class rings, had a number of prominent friends (among the pictures on his bedroom wall were an autographed photo of Thomas E. Dewey, others of Averell Harriman and Carmine De Sapio). He lavished affection and money on his frail wife Lillian. (Says she: "I was his queen.") His blue Cadillac bore the license plates "S.L.R." In 1959 Sam developed a heart...
...White Paper (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). An analysis of the problem of welfare aid, focusing on the rebellious city of Newburgh...
Westinghouse and General Electric sponsor a television spectacular on union featherbedding in Newburgh, New York. "Unions have lost touch with morality," Ralph Cordiner, president of GE, explains, "and a free handout is not the American way of being poor. Only through corporation can America reach its purpose." ...President De Gaulle personally leads a march from Paris to the Spanish border protesting the resumption of plastic bomb tests...
...reference to Senator Goldwater's comments on the Newburgh, N.Y., program [ July 28]-'I would like to see every city adopt the plan. I don't like to see my taxes paid for children born out of wedlock"-I can only assume that the Senator does not agree with a moral code of long standing that we are our brother's keeper. In my opinion, utterance such as this not only pollutes the ''clear air of Arizona" but gives a fetid odor to America...
...completely right. Though she is a long way from The Edge of Night and As the World Turns, she still puts the soap-operatic arts to good use. Last week she was on the air seven times with breathless reports on everything from a welfare hassle in Newburgh. N.Y., to the problems of the Post Office. Though lacking polish and a real reporter's knack for the trenchant question, she packs plenty of punch: a mixture of sass, brass and self-confidence wrapped in a package guaranteed to lure males...