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Hidden Bodies. By week's end the dust was settling a little. General Motors eagerly jumped in to fill the sponsor's gap on the Godfrey & His Friends show and other advertisers were lining up to replace Chesterfield in the open radio &. TV "segments. CBS President Frank Stanton saw the rupture merely as a matter of personalities: "There are no hidden bodies. It was just a lot of little things. For over two years we couldn't get together on renewing a contract. It's a little like a divorce is sometimes...
...biographies tackled subjects from the great age of exploration and produced fresh material and absorbing stories: Bradford Smith's Captain John Smith (no kin) and Kathleen Romoli's Balboa of Darien. Two frequently misunderstood figures were straightened out again: Edwin Stanton, Lincoln's Secretary of War, in Fletcher Pratt's combative Stanton, and a queen of England in H. F. M. Prescott's superb Mary Tudor. Among the remaining literary biographies, some were dull but useful (F. Holmes Dudden's exhaustive Henry Fielding, Leon Edel's first volume of Henry James) ; some were...
...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...
...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...