Word: sams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CALLING himself S. P. Eagle and operating some-what nefariously out of a yacht anchored several miles off the French Riviera, producer Sam Spiegel decided to film The African Queen with a script by James Agee and direction by John Huston. Legend has it that Spiegel signed the two by assuring each that the other was committed to the project, then obtaining bank financing by claiming that both were signed. Everyone fell for the bait and Spiegel made the deal. Regardless of the percentage of actual fact in this story, Hollywood attributes to Spiegel a pretty fair job of wheeler...
...Malapropisms. As Republican minority leader in a period of Democratic ascendancy, Martin kept the faith-pliantly. His malapropisms were manifold and celebrated: guided missiles became "gilded muscles"; Republican programs had "headlights" instead of highlights; his friendly archrival became "the gentleman from Rayburn, Mr. Texas." Joe Martin and Democratic Speaker Sam Rayburn were synonymous with the House for two generations of Americans. Once, when Rayburn was asked to campaign against Martin in Massachusetts, the Texan responded brusquely: "Speak against Joe? Hell, if I lived up there, I'd vote...
...trouble reporting all the battles. CBS Tokyo Bureau Chief Igor Oganesoff, who was frequently shuttled into Viet Nam for fill-in duty, has refused further combat assignments, ABC's Don North, a veteran of 18 months there, asked to be transferred. ABC's Hong Kong Bureau Chief Sam Jaffe also decided after three recent weeks in Viet Nam that "I won't cover Khe Sanh, and I refuse to go back to Hué." Summed up Jaffe, 38, who saw action as a merchant seaman in World War II and with the Marines in Korea: "The longer...
McCarthy introduced several of his "McCarthy girls" to the crowd here and said, "The only bad judgement I made was that I didn't want to lead a children's crusade. But if they'd had Ann Hart and Sam Brown then, the children's crusade would have succeeded." (Brown is a former Divinity School student at Harvard...
...rest of the Magnificent Seven includes Robert E. Lee, 55, an ex-FBI man; James Wadsworth, 62, onetime U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Robert T. Hartley, 58, nephew of the late Speaker Sam Rayburn; and Lee Loevinger, 54, a former Justice Department trustbuster who barely conceals his contempt for television ("the literature of the illiterate") or for the FCC itself. "I think," he once told a congressional committee, "that there is grave danger that the commission is going to be so busy trying to repress yesterday's technological advances that we will still be working on them...