Word: stantons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hospital after his celebrated hip operation, Godfrey watched over his flock by television, decided that one of his Little Godfreys-chunky, curly-haired Baritone Julius La Rosa, 23, an ex-bluejacket whose career he had launched two years ago-was getting a little cocky. He told CBS President Frank Stanton that Julius would get a good talking to. Fortnight ago, when Godfrey learned that La Rosa had flouted one of his rules by signing up with his own agent, he had a new report for the boss. "Arthur called me at home Saturday night," said Stanton, "and told...
...finished up with its own outdoor pickup. Hovering tensely over FCC during the programs was a Hues Who of experts, executives, engineers and designers. Among them: RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff. who kept his eyes fixed on CBS's new color tube ("No comment"), and CBS President Frank Stanton, who watched his own set from 15 feet away with a pair of high-powered binoculars...
Trying to upgrade Stanton is itself a pretty formidable job. There has never been a good, balanced biography of the man, but the standard view among U.S. historians leaves him with low marks for political candor and loyalty, high scores for arrogance and dissimulation. Pratt's Stanton is not apt to change the historians' minds overnight, but he has written a spirited, readable defense of his man that should leave the pros and the antis agreeing on at least one thing: stout Unionist Stanton was a whale of a Secretary of War, who probably did as much...
Fire & Prayers. No one could have spotted the future fire-eating Secretary in the youngster who shunned fights, delivered lectures on God to his playfellows and ran prayer meetings in the family stable in Steubenville, Ohio. But as a self-made lawyer, Stanton fought cases as he was later to fight the war: to win. When Congressman Dan Sickles killed his wife's lover on a Washington street, Stanton got him acquitted on grounds never before used in a U.S. trial-temporary insanity.-In another case, he brusquely superseded an older lawyer assigned to the case and made...
...Stanton, at that time, Lincoln was "that long-armed baboon . . . that giraffe." Even after the Civil War had begun, he told the delighted General McClellan that Lincoln was the "original gorilla." But when Lincoln named him to the Cabinet, Stanton became a dynamic Secretary to the man he had once despised. He drove his subordinates mercilessly, but never so hard as he drove himself. Says Author Pratt: "He could tear up a contract and fling the pieces in the contractor's face; he could pass a white-haired father through to the bedside of his wounded son . . . He could...