Word: roger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CAMPAIGN '68 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION PREVIEW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). CBS's preview has Walter Cronkite as anchorman, Roger Mudd and Eric Sevareid as analysts and Mike Wallace leading a team of six reporters. Harry Reasoner covers the podium...
Unwanted Role. Never has a price roll-up been so eagerly declared a price rollback-not, anyway, since the Administration joined the steel fight of 1966, which followed much the same script. There was the same hero, U.S. Steel and its chairman, Roger Blough, who undercut by roughly 50% the price increases posted by the same villain, Bethlehem and its chairman, Edmund Martin. And there was the same Lyndon Johnson, who declared himself pleased with the denouement...
...very deeply known in this country. At a time when flashy incoherent groups like Cream, and as yet unrealized ones like the Doors are raking it in, this is a strange blindness because the Who are artists of the noblest rank. All four of them--Peter Townshend, lead guitar, Roger Daltrey, singer, Keith Moon, drummer and John Entwistle, bass--have distinct powerful styles which are among the greatest that rock has so far produced. And their collective sound is wilfully original and bursting with the most exciting potential for the future...
...evening might have been a tolerable concert, but the songs weren't much better than the dialogue. They change from folk to rock as the hero gets corrupted (yes, Marshall, the media is the message). Leading man Roger Brown had a pleasant voice, and would have been a marvelous leader for a summer camp sing-a-long. The rock music, and the rock group, The Brown Paper Bag were monotonous, and imitative (more plagiaristically than facetiously) of groups like the Jefferson Airplane...
...News Anchorman Walter Cronkite and a team of 25 correspondents, including Eric Sevareid, Roger Mudd, Harry Reasoner and Mike Wallace, will report on the opening session today from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and on the evening sessions throughout the week from 7:30 p.m. to conclusion. NBC, with Anchormen Chet Huntley and David Brinkley and Floor Reporters Frank McGee, John Chancellor, Sander Vanocur and Edwin Newman, will cover opening-day sessions (9:30 a.m. to end of daytime action and 7:30 p.m. to conclusion) and portions of the week's activities live from Convention Hall. ABC will...