Word: stanton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fought boldly for the right to editorialize -and timidly let it go virtually unused. Last week, for the second time in network history,* CBS exercised its right. In an editorial prepared by the network's little-known editorial board-headed by Chairman William S. Paley and President Frank Stanton-Washington Newsman Howard K. Smith charged that Americans are "overcomplacent, overaddicted to comfort, and indifferent to good government." He urged changes in the Pentagon to eliminate interservice chauvinism, called for readiness to negotiate for disarmament, warned: "We must be prepared to make sacrifices, to pay higher taxes, to face controls...
...vote goes to the best Vice President in the history of the U.S. (and probably the next Chief Executive), Richard Nixon. ROGER STANTON Detroit...
...STANTON London...
...policy, and 3) the hard fact that if CBS ever loses him, it will be NBC's gain. CBS pays him well over $300,000 a year. To a questioner who demanded at a stockholders' meeting why he got more money than Paley or CBS President Frank Stanton, the board chairman himself replied: "His value seems to be higher...
...system. So will their admen and the moviehouse operators, who stand to lose business. They argue that pay TV will drain the free networks of talent, penalize the majority in favor of the minority that would be able to pay for a better show. Cracked CBS President Frank Stanton: "Television could not long remain half free and half...