Word: segments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crosby. Crosby yawned, and eventually they were left with the actor who was at the very bottom of their list: Falk. At first Falk, too, refused the assignment, unwilling to lock his career into the usual 13-week series schedule. He finally consented when the network proposed a seven-segment miniseries, rotating Columbo with three other shows under the collective title NBC Sunday Mystery Movie. When the show was aired in March 1971, "that rare match between character and actor made it a hit," Levinson recalls. "Who can say what another actor might have done with the role? Now Peter...
...weeks to get it," he observes, "is not an average record customer." Along with Columbia House and such smaller competitors as the Longine Symphonette (a seven-record set by Nat King Cole), Crane's firm has made the TV-promoted mail-order market the fastest-growing segment of the record business...
...over the fence. It was a case of the interviewee being ten times more intelligent than the interviewer." Clawson also rapped the anchorman's selection of interview subjects: "Cronkite has done only three interviews this year-Archie Cox, John Dean and Daniel Ellsberg. Some balance, huh?" (The Ellsberg segment was actually aired on June 23, 1971; late last week Cronkite added new Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski to this year's tally...
...White helped to found the American Heart Association and thereafter became Dr. Cardiology to half a dozen federal health services-and eventually to a large segment of the American public. When President Eisenhower had his first heart attack in 1955, his personal physicians turned naturally to White as a consultant. Describing the President's recovery to the press, he spoke freely of the patient's bowel movements. To many, this was shocking, but White, a sage and proper Yankee, was speaking with a purpose: he was getting across to a mass audience the value of normal body functions...
City Controller Beame, 67 years old and New York's first Jewish mayor, has been involved in city fiscal management for over 27 years. He was heavily supported by the business sector of the city, and received most of his votes from the white, moderate, and middle-class segment of the electorate...