Word: newsman
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After a couple of chapters, it becomes apparent that the Shannon family is strictly fictitious and any resemblance to a real American family is coincidental - or, at any rate, deplorable. But Old Hearst Newsman Horan, who has knocked out 24 books (King's Rebel, The Great American West) since 1942, is obviously trying hard to create the impression that he is writing a roman à clef about the Kennedys. For this reason alone, his account of money as the lubricant of U.S. politics just might become the most ineptly written bestseller of the month...
AFTER CIVIL RIGHTS . . . BLACK POWER (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Newsman Sandor Vanocur reports on the rising militancy in the civil rights movement. Film clips and interviews with activists in Baltimore, Atlanta, Washington, and rural parts of Mississippi...
Eric Sevareid, D.LIT., CBS newsman...
Chancellor's successor, said USIA director Leonard Marks, will be from the same bracket-"someone who has been earning in excess of $75,000 in broadcasting and is an outstanding newsman known throughout the nation." Marks's coyness produced inevitable speculation that he might mean CBS's Eric Sevareid or Charles Collingwood, NBC's Nancy Dickerson or ABC's Howard K. Smith. Likeliest choice, however, is John Charles Daly, 53, onetime ABC vice president for news and currently the suave moderator of CBS's What's My Line...
Died. Lyle C. Wilson, 67, longtime Washington bureau manager and vice president (1953-64) of United Press International, who in 40 years as a solid, sensible newsman counted as his finest hour the time in 1939 when he refused to kill a story on a rift between F.D.R. and Secretary of State Cordell Hull; of heart disease; in Stuart, Fla. As Wilson recalled it, F.D.R. threatened a feud that would "hurt U.P. and hurt you"-to which Wilson shot back: "What would hurt us even more is if word got around that you said to kill a story...