Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...across the country as they converged on Miami. For a change, photographers and picture editors were on the scene together. A Television editor was able to observe TV reporters not only on the tube but on the convention floor. The Press editor could observe daily newsmen on the job, read their copy and interview them, all in a matter of hours...
Ronald Reagan's reaction to defeat was not much different. Arriving back at his Deauville Hotel headquarters shortly after Richard Nixon had been nominated, the Californian was greeted by milling campaign workers, still carrying placards. The signs, different from those that had been hoisted a few hours before, read: "Reagan for President in 1972." The Governor's reaction: "Oh, for heaven's sake...
...them between the hard covers of his latest novel, Couples. But the good folk of Ipswich either don't think so or couldn't care less. For there was John, in Pilgrim costume, at "17th Century Day," commemorating the founding of Ipswich in 1633. He read the introduction to a 30-minute pageant he wrote depicting the place as it was back when, noting that there the "Puritan flame burned brightest." Then he sat in with the Ipswich Recorder Society for a few rounds of Handel and Scarlatti. "This town has been kind to me, even indulgent," said...
Longhair Publicity. Joseph McGinniss, columnist of the Philadelphia Inquirer, pursued John Wayne from his "inspirational reading" at the convention to the Poodle Lounge at the Hotel Fontainebleau. In the boozy gloom, Wayne reviewed his speech. "What the hell did I say? I have no idea what the hell I said." Then he remembered a little. "Permissiveness is the biggest problem we have. The people in these colleges and these ghettos and these goddam longhair punks." And it's all the fault of the press, he said. "Nothing is ever any different from how it ever was except all these...
Like most members of the group, Janis cannot read a note of music. "We're not dispassionate professionals," Janis explains. "We're passionate and sloppy. I'm untutored native folk talent -I like that phrase, it's so pretentious." Her only regimen is to stay away from cold beer before singing and she refuses to worry about the punishment her rasping style inflicts on her vocal cords. When friends urge her to hold back in order to preserve her voice, she asks: "Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre just so I can sound...