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...STANTON: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF LINCOLN'S SECRETARY OF WAR (643 pp.)-Benjamin P. Thomas and Harold M. Hyman-Knopf...
...prominent Americans have been hated so much as Edwin McMasters Stanton, Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of War. Stanton was vilified as the man who ruined the South by championing the vindictive Reconstruction Acts. Even today, an esoteric cult of historians stoutly maintains that Stanton planned the assassination of Lincoln so that he could take over the country...
...Gaston Stanton responded that he was all in favor of Minow's plan to require TV set manufacturers to equip their product to receive ultrahigh frequencies, thus opening up some 70 additional channels and creating a new field for new broadcasters. Some of these stations presumably would be run by educational institutions, and some would be able to appeal to intellectually coherent audiences smaller than Gunsmoke pulls...
...microphone around his neck, seeking truth. What about sponsor control? How about all those pressures and taboos? "Flyspecks," said CBS-TV President James T. Aubrey. "Completely insignificant." Why did Playhouse go-probably the best dramatic show in TV's brief history-disappear from the air? Because, said Stanton, the audience "became much smaller than we thought it should be." In television a few million viewers are not enough...
...that 17% of the network's total programming is in the news area, and that this year CBS has almost half again as many public-affairs shows as it had last season. (If this was in response to Minow's prodding, he did not say so.) Stanton picked up the theme of TV's inherent greatness -"new worlds, new horizons, new experiences"-and promised that in the American cultural boom of the soaring sixties, television would develop its own classics. Early examples, according to Stanton: CBS's own Accent and CBS Reports...