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Begun five years ago on radio, the TV version of Meet the Press, which started in 1947, has been designed by Co-Producers Martha Rountree and Lawrence Spivak as an on-the-news soapbox where national and international figures like to spring surprises. The secret, says 34-year-old Martha Rountree, is timing. "If you have Joe McCarthy on your program in an ordinary, run-of-the-mill week, people say, 'So what?' But if you get him the night after he makes a sensational speech, everybody's spellbound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Headliner | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

Never Loaded. Its bombshell quality has made the show a "must" in Washington; reporters cover it for the news and the President reportedly listens in. Ordinary viewers are apt to be more interested in the bearbaiting aspects of the show. Terrier-like Producer Spivak, onetime (1944-1950) editor & publisher of the American Mercury and the only permanent member of the reporters' panel, often gets a tenacious grip on an evasive guest and shakes damaging admissions from him. Other members of the shifting, four-man panel come from the top drawer of the U.S. press, and many a bigwig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Headliner | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

...Friday night dance with music by Harry Marshard's orchestra. The weekend featured other musical events, such as the Theater Group's presentation of "The Marriage of Figaro" and the Eliot Chamber Orchestra. The main event was the Crimson key's "Orchids and Moonlight" dance, with Charlie Spivak's orchestra...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sodality to Play For Key Weekend | 10/26/1950 | See Source »

...David Rohr '50, Hist. & Lit.; David Francis Ross '50, Economics; Stephen Myron Schwebel '50, Government; Gilbert Randall Seely '50, Chemistry; Stanley Herbert Shapiro '50, Social Relations; John Gerald Simon '50, Hist. & Lit.; Henry Joseph Smith '49, Astronomy; H. Eric Solomon '50, English; Carlos Claudio Spies '50, Music; Jonathan Martin Spivak '50, Government; Jerome Burton Spunt '50, Economics; Oscar Ephram Starobin '50, Biology; Harold Peter Stera '50, Hist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brooks Addresses 94 New PBK Members | 6/20/1950 | See Source »

According to Hazel the greatest contributing factor to the success of the dance was the "name" band. "Having Charlie Spivak made it more than just an ordinary dance," Hazel said, "and next year we hope to get an even bigger band...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Key Members Give Profits Toward Dance Fund | 5/5/1950 | See Source »

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