Word: says
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...society is a man-eat-man thing on every possible level," says Writer Rod Serling, 33, and his tough, uncompromising television plays (Patterns, Requiem for a Heavyweight, The Comedian) reflect this belief. So does his professional life. He has contended with networks, ad agencies and sponsors over what he could say, scrapped with directors over how to say it, become TV's most outspoken authority on the devious ways of television censorship. But short (5 ft. 5 in.) Author Serling is more in demand than any other playwright in the TV business, was recently corralled...
Charles S. Dubin, 39, highly paid director of NBC-TV's Twenty-One quiz show and a summer replacement, The Investigator, denied current membership in the Communist Party, but refused to say whether he was a member before May 8, the day the committee first questioned him in a closed-door session. NBC promptly dumped Director Dubin as "unacceptable...
...When he was barred from the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919, Swope grandly donned top hat and cutaway coat, brushed past deferential guards with the explanation that he was a delegate from Liberia, and came out with the hitherto unpublished League of Nations Covenant. Said he: "All I can say for publication is that I found it lying on a table in the meeting room...
...Perfect!" In his estate at Sands Point, L,I., Swope fussed over three generations of his family (two children, four grandchildren) and presided grandly at some of the wittiest dinner parties in the nation. No foreign dignitary could say he had been a success in the U.S. until he had been to Sands Point to play a round of big-league croquet against such guests as Averell Harriman, the Marx brothers, William Randolph Hearst Jr. or Swope's late elder brother Gerard, onetime president and board chairman of General Electric. On the croquet court Swope was insufferable...
Many details of the X-14, which was developed for the Air Force, are still secret. Bell will not say how much weight the deflected thrust will lift off the ground, but the company is confident that in the reasonably near future large aircraft, both civil and military, will be equipped with vanes and nozzles for vertical operation from small airports...