Word: offbeaters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wright, in San Francisco, suggested a further breakdown: 1) the big, obvious news story, 2) the comprehensive situation story, with preparations made long in advance, 3) the local offbeat story which can grow out of a small newspaper squib, and 4) "the TIME type of exclusive, like a new business starting up, or a spectacular operation by a surgeon or troubles within some church parish . . . They are the news dividends of the week." Bill Johnson, in Dallas, checked back on his last 23 stories, found one originated with a press conference, one tip came from a press agent, seven from...
...critics have generally praised her books, but the paying public has held back. Her new novel seems likely to get the same sort of reception. A snappish inquiry into the ways of men and dogs, it will appeal to those who take their reading extra-dry, their wit offbeat, their people eccentric...
Cameramen Wanted. Two camera crews - one in Washington, the other in Europe - are working exclusively for See It Now. Others are hired as needed for specific requirements. But Murrow thinks that TV will have to train its own cameramen to look for the offbeat and unusual. Says he: "There's no sense our trying to be on top of the news with a weekly show...
...Bagpipes. Miller picks the tunes, picks the singers to record them, sometimes even picks the albums to sheath the records. Latest pickings: offbeat instrumentations, e.g., harpsichord background for Clooney, French horns for Crooner Guy Mitchell. Says Miller: "You've got to work out a gimmick that'll get people's attention and hold it. You need that sense of communication." One senseless communication: a Dinah Shore vocal backed by six caterwauling bagpipes. Admits Miller...
...shot in a boundary dispute by a half-breed, the diary filled 2,000 pages. Rediscovered almost 90 years later in the attic of his old house, William Johnson's Natchez is one of those authentic windfalls that period scholars festoon with footnotes, and plain readers enjoy as offbeat browsing...