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His new assignment will not be so easy. On Sept. 26, he and a hand-picked crew of correspondents-Garrick Utley, Douglas Kiker, Betsy Aaron and Jack Perkins-will go up against CBS's runaway hit Dallas. The vehicle: NBC's Magazine with David Brinkley. Replacing NBC'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: David Takes On a Goliath | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

The traditional view of publishing as a leisurely life, carried on in mahogany offices and posh restaurants, has been replaced by the harrowing vision of a rat race on a roulette table. With the literary agent acting as croupier, editors must frantically get their bets down on potential bestsellers. Says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Decline of Editing | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

These gimmicks could provide the basis for a great horror movie. In fact, they have: Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. But Brian De Palma seems to have been inspired by his first youthful look at Psycho the way other teen-agers are affected by a helpful teacher or a first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Knife of Brian | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

Helen and Teacher touches upon the happier parts of Helen's life--her experiences as a writer, her lasting friendships with the great men of the age (Alexander Graham Bell, Mark Twain, and Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, who proclaimed that "Anything Helen Keller is for, I am for.") Yet while...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Prosaic and Parasitic | 6/27/1980 | See Source »

Peter Dale, assistant professor of English and American Literature and senior tutor at Adams House, started looking for a new job nearly a year and a half ago after David D. Perkins '51, chairman of the English department, told Dale that he--like every other junior Faculty member in English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Walking the Plank | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

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