Word: sorensens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remarkable number of other well-known names in show business-the Astaires, Marlon Brando, Johnny Carson, Montgomery Clift, James Coburn, Henry Fonda, Dorothy McGuire and Robert Taylor, to name a few. Just why, may have been explained a few years ago by ex-White House Aide Ted Sorensen, another Nebraska refugee. "The state," he complained, "is old, outmoded, a place to come from or a place...
SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "Who in "68?" is the question put to Democrats Wayne Morse, Ted Sorensen and Bill Moyers, and to Republicans Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, George Romney, Ronald Reagan, Charles Percy and Barry Goldwater. William H. Lawrence does the interviewing...
This biography of Bobby Kennedy is not quite as venomous as Victor Lasky's J.h.K.: The Man & the Myth, nor does it have the I-was-there authenticity of Theodore Sorensen's Kennedy, or the sharp historical insights of Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s A Thousand Days. Nevertheless, De Toledano's R.F.K. owes plenty to all three-along with dozens of other filchable Bobby notes and quotes from a multitude of other public-library-shelf sources. Predictaoly, the author has let his right-wing bias warp the good and winnow only the bad from the reams...
...such glittering editorial credits as Maxwell Taylor's The Uncertain Trumpet, Matthew Ridgway's Soldier, John Gardner's Excellence, Chester Bowles's Ambassador's Report, Merriman Smith's Thank You, Mr. President, William Attwood's The Reds and The Blacks, Theodore Sorensen's Kennedy and William Manchester's The Death of a President. Only as a sideline does Thomas edit a few novelists, including John Cheever. As he sees it, "there's something romantic about people dedicated to public service...
...Comes High, a Pacific battle memoir by Marine Captain George P. Hunt, now LIFE'S managing editor. Ever since, Thomas has tirelessly pursued "instant history." Once he decides a man is worth a book, Thomas never lets him forget it. Well before the Kennedy assassination, he encouraged Theodore Sorensen to write a book. "When Sorensen finally decided to leave the White House," he says, "I was sitting on his doorstep...