Word: sacco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Newly hung in Washington's National Gallery of Art were a Turner, a Gainsborough and a Reynolds, left to the museum by a onetime Boston auto dealer who died in 1958: Alvan Tufts Fuller, better known as the Massachusetts governor who refused to stay the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti. Also included in the Fuller estate: $80,646.94 in paychecks that he collected during his 13 years in public office and decided never to cash...
...name of freedom, polluting air they do not own." His proposal: set up several nonprofit organizations, staffed by experts in various fields who would select programs; the networks would simply function as agents selling air time, but would have no control over shows. Writer-Producer Robert Alan (The Sacco-Vanzetti Story) Aurthur, whose rhetoric was particularly eloquent when he was describing the "cold, slitted eyes of advertising men," revealed that low-flying, low-quality ABC, the network that had "made money without spending it," has recently been exporting consultants to help NBC do the same...
...unhealthy violence, of defections, dismissals and dismay. CBS lost its able News Division President Sig Mickelson. and ABC squeezed out veteran Newscaster John Daly. CBS's Edward R. Murrow took his tobacco habit to Washington as head of the U.S. Information Agency (see PRESS). Writer-Producer (The Sacco-Vanzetti Story) Robert Alan Aurthur quit TV with the parting shot: "Television may be unique in our free-enterprise system in that the harder one fights for a position in the marketplace, the poorer the product becomes-all in the name of 'satisfying the mass audience...
...there has been a long and careful sifting of the evidence in the case. It is ridiculous to say that Sacco and Vanzetti are being railroaded to the chair. The situation is much worse than that. This is a thing done cold-bloodedly and with deliberation. But care and deliberation do not guarantee justice. Even if every venerable college president in the country trotted forward to say "guilty" it would not alter the facts. The tragedy of it all lies in the fact that though a Southern mountain man may move more quickly to a dirty deed of violence...
From Broun's article after The World fired him: There is no use in my pretending that I do not believe myself right and the World wrong in the present controversy. As far as Sacco and Vanzetti went, both the paper and the individual wanted an amelioration of the sentence. Nothing less than a pardon or a new trial was satisfactory to me. Apparently The World believed that if life imprisonment was all that could be won from Gov. Fuller, that would be bettter than nothing. Here an interesting point of tactics arises. The editorial strategy of the World...