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...cast FAME'S PERIL (pocket Books; $19). Harrison Ford could play ace reporter Jack Werts -- a man's man fed up with the Hollywood newsbeat and a dedicated chaser of bimbos. Ceci McCann, ambitious blond TV reporter, could be played by any number of ambitious blond starlets. And Robert Redford could play the star turned director whose son is kidnapped. In a slick comic-book thriller, TIME contributor Martha Smilgis works a writer's hustle (Is it a book, or is it a screenplay?) in the area she knows best, Hollywood and % entertainment news. And in the tradition of Cecil...
Context of Society. In order to avoid too ivory tower an approach, Northwestern gives its students practical experience covering a newsbeat for Chicago's American. Similarly, some 15 students each quarter go to Washington, where they work out of the National Press Building under the supervision of a professor in residence. The Missouri School of Journalism plans next fall to start sending students to Brussels for a semester, where they will report on EEC, Euratom and other European affairs...
...broadcasting company (NBC's Meet the Press). Editors are particularly pained at picking up news stories developed by local TV stations. In Chicago some rewritemen still invoke the old unwritten city-room rule to omit the names of the show and the station on which a local TV newsbeat originated...
...Died. James Leslie (Jim) Marshall, 65, onetime Collier's Far East correspondent, who got a resounding newsbeat (and a crippled arm, damaged vocal cords) in 1937 when he mooched a ride on the U.S. Navy gunboat Panay just before Japanese dive bombers sank it in the Yangtze River; of a heart attack; in Palo Alto, Calif...
Died. Anthony Harry (Tony) Leviero, 50, hard-plugging New York Times Washington correspondent (at the White House and Pentagon), who won a Pulitzer Prize for his Administration-leaked newsbeat on President Truman's 1950 Wake Island meeting with General MacArthur; of a heart attack; in Pittsfield, Mass...