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...house across from the theater. Word flashed that an attacker had stabbed Secretary of State Seward, bedridden by a recent accident. Washington's army commandant, General Christopher C. Augur, sent patrols out helter-skelter and waited for orders from his chief, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. With another Cabinet member, Stanton hurried from the bedside of Seward to the tailor's house and set up a frantic headquarters there. While the President lay bleeding in a hall bedroom and Mrs. Lincoln screamed and wept in the front parlor, Stanton "convened a special court of inquiry . . . issued orders...
...ordered out 8,000 soldiers and dispatched patrols in every direction except the one which Booth took (Stanton erroneously assumed that the wartime 9 o'clock closing of the Navy Yard bridge was still enforced). The telegraph went dead. Army units searched and arrested blindly...
Football & Four Roses. T.N.T. was started just five years ago by Nathan Halpern, a University of Southern California graduate who worked as assistant to CBS President Frank Stanton before deciding to go into closed-circuit TV. He thought that movie theaters would be glad to get back some of the customers they had lost...
...Another. Controversy raged as usual throughout the week, with the accepted number of politicians and experts appearing on forums and giving in most cases simple answers to complicated problems. Some of the week's best debates took place off the air. CBS President Frank Stanton protested the ban on TV coverage of the forthcoming McCarthy investigations. When reporters pointed out that CBS had not bothered to televise the Army-McCarthy hearings, Stanton argued that it was the principle that mattered: "We want the same access to the hearings as is given the press. Like the press, we then reserve...
...STANTON A. WATERMAN Sargentville...