Word: pencilings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thurber Carnival is a one-mind show, an animated anthology of pen-and-pencil work by the most splendidly mad of modern humorists. The thought of such a show, however alluring, must cause qualms: Can a world, neither flesh, fish nor fowl and at the same time quite palpably all three, remain vaultingly alive within theater walls, seem superbly demented in three sober dimensions? It turns out that to a notable degree, it can. For one thing, there is much of Thurber that snugly fits a kind of intimate revue. The Unicorn in the Garden and If Grant Had Been...
...investigate all the Air Force manuals. The Air Force started its own investigation, named its deputy chief, General Curtis LeMay, who has better things to do, to lead it. Defense Secretary Gates ordered an investigation of all nontechnical manuals in all the services, with special instructions to blue-pencil any lines that are "lacking in good taste or common sense." Said one Congressman with commendable restraint: "Somehow we've got to switch our attention from gracious living to the missile...
...director for Sacramento's KCRA-TV: "News is only news once." Fortnight ago all three major TV networks-NBC, CBS and ABC-announced that their men would no longer appear at separate conferences scheduled for TV by the Governors of New York and California, but they would send pencil reporters to the press conferences and leave the cameras at home...
Just a Performance. Paradoxically, the battle forces get along best where the provocation is greatest-in Washington, where press conferences come as thick as Congressmen. President Eisenhower established his own pattern early in his presidency by inviting all accredited comers, TV and pencil newsmen alike, to his news conferences. On the other hand...
Washington has at least faced the fact of life: the TV camera is here to stay. But accepting that fact is not easy for old pencil men. Says Louis Lyons, curator of the Nieman Foundation, a onetime newspaperman and now a TV man: "With TV cameras, it becomes a performance, not a real press conference...