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Dates: during 1977-1977
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...cathode-ray persona Frost seems a modest chap, he sometimes seems?in Churchillian parlance???to have much to be modest about. He is not an intellectual, a scholar or a wit, a raconteur or a connoisseur, a trained reporter, a facile writer or even a modest warbler. However, even his fiercest foes concede that Frost is an artful, intelligent questioner whose disarming manner often coaxes confidences from a subject who might simply dry up under more abrasive handling. On The David Frost Show, which ran for three years in the U.S. (it went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: David Can Be a Goliath | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

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