Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Western Theological Seminary Pittsburgh...
Fighting her way through a blizzard from New York to a Pittsburgh speaking date, Eleanor Roosevelt, a lively 75, first had her plane land in Columbus, then dauntlessly hopped a bus for a 200-mile last lap. After the bus was delayed by a traffic jam and snowdrifts, Pennsylvania state police rescued Mrs. Roosevelt but did not get her to Pittsburgh until hours too late. Losing no more time, she caught a train back to Manhattan. How had she whiled away her time on the snailish bus? "Waiting to get there...
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).- The story of a misguided 14-year-old in possession of a pistol gives Iron City Justice a chance to tell a larger tale: Pittsburgh's successful approach to the problem of juvenile delinquency...
Seen in only five cities (Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Boston, Baltimore, Cleveland), the debut of Westinghouse Broadcasting's Reading Out Loud series proved to be a small clear voice speaking strongly in answer to television's critics, who have often accused TV of destroying the art of reading. There was no script-just the poet reading, sometimes with wonderful insight, sometimes in a poem-killing singsong. The children were seen responding, sometimes with a joy of understanding, sometimes with the bored and nervous smiles of polite scorn...
...bread and apple pie. Most tied into the same closed-circuit TV network while Republican National Chairman Thruston Morton in Manhattan summoned up the G.O.P.'s biggest names (Vice President Richard Nixon in Chicago, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller in Washington, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge in Pittsburgh, et al.) for fervent testimonials to Ike. Said Lodge: "Like George Washing ton, you are first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of your countrymen...