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Harvard's Roger Porter, wearily grading papers through Christmas night with a flickering TV screen to keep him company, decided about 4 a.m. that the electronic symbol of American power and Government was the White House. Not so long ago, it was the Capitol. Indeed, the Soviets, usually a few years behind the times, still use the Capitol as the American symbol on their TV, which may be a clue as to why they have trouble with Ronald Reagan...
Electronic matchmaking services have long enabled love-starved clients to choose dates by watching videotapes of potential companions. Now the Corporate Interviewing Network, a company based in Fort Lauderdale, is giving employers a chance to use a similar technique to screen job applicants. Firms using the service send CIN a list of job candidates. Then CIN arranges to videotape interviews with them at 19 regional offices from New York City to Los Angeles, using questions drafted by the employers. Within seven days after talking with the last candidate, CIN sends the employer a tape of the applicants...
...controversy caught fire last fall when a journalistic organization, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, announced plans to screen Murrow in Washington as part of a fund-raising event scheduled for this week. Two prominent CBS newsmen who are members of the R.C.F.P. steering committee, Dan Rather and Walter Cronkite, voiced strong objections. The film, they charged, presents a distorted picture of the network's brass, particularly former CBS President Frank Stanton, who comes across as a shallow "numbers cruncher." Further, according to committee members, Rather argued that the R.C.F.P. should not lend its support to a movie...
...Veeck bought the minor league Milwaukee Brewers. He put on morning games for night workers, staged pig races and handed out outlandish door prizes, including a swaybacked horse. He installed a chicken-wire screen above the rightfield fence to turn opponent home runs into singles, then rolled it out of the way when the home team came up. The practice was banned after one day. In Cleveland he offered nursery care during games and staged a night honoring a fan who had written to ask why ballplayers always get the free cars and prizes. When the Indians started...
Film buffs may regard the '30s and '40s as the Periclean Age of Celluloid. But those on the other side of the screen tended to view themselves as galley slaves. Joan Blondell reports, "During the Depression I was making more than six pictures a year. I made six pictures while carrying my son and eight with my daughter. They'd get me behind desks and behind barrels and throw tables in front of me to hide my growing tummy." Dancer Eleanor Powell runs into a friend, a film cutter at MGM, and lunches with him at the studio commissary. That...