Word: newman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dinner--"to be served at 6:30 p.m. sharp" as the invitation said--didn't begin until after seven, but the sodality ladies, school teachers, and even the Somerville policemen religiously refrained from dipping into their fruit cups until after the Bishop of Boston delivered the invocation. Meanwhile, Ruby Newman's Orchestra, attuned to the niceties of the affair, balanced "When Irish Eyes are Smiling" with "Arrivederci Roma" as they played from the balcony...
...Bros.-Seven Arts, he actually took a cut in pay (to $250,000 a year). But he is no slouch at spending. He has already granted Bill Cosby's corporation -which started with a capital investment of $150-a five-picture, $12 million contract. Hyman also signed Paul Newman to his first directing assignment, Now I Lay Me Down, and has purchased the screen rights to Tennessee Williams' new play, The Seven Descents of Myrtle...
Christmas "Doggerel." When Manhattan reporters complained last year about difficulties in getting access to Hubert Humphrey, Newman observed: "He is not exactly a man from whom words have to be torn against his will " When Lyndon Johnson transferred Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach to the State Department, Newman noted: "Mr. Johnson does not merely announce his appointments; he congratulates himself on having made them." And about the only joy of Christmas on the tube is Newman's annual "doggerel" reading on the Today show. A stanza from last year...
Prose, obviously, is Newman's bag and he is one of the few TV newscasters who can write anything that stands jp. He has contributed over the years to the Atlantic, Harper's and Punch Newman started writing at George Washington High School in his native Manhattan, took a journalism degree at University of Wisconsin ('40) and did graduate work in government at Louisiana State University. Later he studied in France, covered the State Department for the United Press, then became a writer for CBS's Eric Sevareid. From 1952 to 1961, he worked mainly...
Then it was back to New York to begin his $60,000-$75,000 annual prac tice of what he calls "a more personal type of journalism." His basic reportonal posture he describes as "healthily jaundiced." "If someone wants something done on the scenic wonders of the United States," Newman says wryly 'he wouldn't call on me. I am not very good at expressing awe." That goes for television itself. When he isn't first-nightmg or anchoring an NBC show Newman catches up with his reading' I m not entertained," he says, "by television...