Word: normans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another ace up his sleeve: Jock Whitney. For more than a year. Field had argued that two such ardent Republicans as he and the Herald Trib's boss were a natural pair, one that certainly made more sense than Graham's oil-and-water mixture of Norman and Otis Chandler's conservative Los Angeles Times and the liberal Washington Post. Whitney finally agreed to tie the Herald Trib's small though distinguished syndicate (54 papers) to Marshall Field's big one-a union that, once consummated, will put Field very much ahead...
WCBS-TV New York started its series with an original modern dance by 28-year-old Norman Walker. It was arty, erotic, and somewhat constipated, centering on a noble youth who seemed to have trouble deciding in what direction his basic current flowed. It seemed to dazzle the audience, however, since the Repertoire Workshop's ballet scored higher ratings than its competition. NBC's The Virginian and ABC's Wagon Train. Philadelphia showed young actors in Thornton Wilder's Pullman Car Hiawatha. Two Chicago housewives-whose principal credits are six children-contributed a short play...
...Tarheel student body thought they detected a familiar ring. Scheduled to speak on "Freedom and the Welfare State," Right-Winging William F. Buckley Jr., 37. instead read an article he had written for Playboy, in which he paeaned his own brand of conservatism, scourged left-leaning Author Norman Mailer, and cast doubt on the virility of Critic Kenneth Tynan. Agreeing that Buckley had used his text once too often (his fee was $1,000 for the same lecture in Chicago, another $3,500 from Playboy}, the speech-sponsoring Carolina Forum withheld Buckley's $450 stipend until a more...
...striving to change its Rose Bowl hue in favor of academic touchdowns. Un der way is a 25-year master plan priced at $106 million. The Ford money will help raise a new science building (particularly for physics), hire more faculty to help boost graduate-student enrollment. Said President Norman H. Top ping: "It will enable us to move forward much faster than we expected...
Died. Bobo Newsom, 55, showboating South Carolina-born major-league pitcher for 24 years, whose roundhouse skill on the mound (211 victories for nine different clubs) was matched only by his foghorn braggadocio; of intestinal hemorrhage; in Orlando, Fla. Born Louis Norman Newsom, he always referred to himself and everyone else as "Bobo,'' drove around in a custom-built car with a two-tone bobo horn and his name in gold leaf a foot high on the dashboard. He was magnetic to baseballs, at various times broke his thumb, his kneecap, his leg. Pitching against the Yankees...