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...Lincoln to replace Simon Cameron, his first Secretary of War, he appointed Stanton, believing him to be the best man for the all-important post. He recognized that the very qualities that had brought the hotheaded Stanton to treat him badly--his intensity, his bluntness, his determination to succeed--were precisely the qualities he needed in his War Secretary...
...years. Her father was handsome (he later doubled for Robert Taylor in horse-riding scenes for the movie Billy the Kid). Her mother Pat was beautiful, a Southern belle who had left her hometown in Arkansas because she had "tired of grits" and had gone on to succeed as a chorus girl in St. Louis...
...political consultants have joined a few Michigan Democrats to form the Draft Lee lacocca Committee Inc. They plan to raise $50,000 during the next two months to investigate the legal barriers to a genuine draft of lacocca. Their cause is complicated by a tradition that says drafts rarely succeed and by election laws in some states that work against getting undeclared and unwilling candidates on the ballot. Nevertheless, the fledgling committee could have reason to dream: a Washington Post-ABC News poll earlier this year had lacocca trailing behind only Colorado Senator Gary Hart and New York Governor Mario...
...corners in trying to reconstruct a winning prime-time schedule. "We've got to protect what goes on screen," says Stoddard, 49, who was named programming chief last November after running ABC's mini-series and theatrical-films operations, "because what goes on the screen will make us succeed or fail." The network has ordered 27 pilots for potential fall series, more than either of its two rivals. Lucille Ball will star in a new sitcom, and other prospective series include a sci-fi drama based on the 1976 film The Man Who Fell to Earth. "Some of the shows...
Every reporter at the New York Times, newspaper wags like to say, remembers two birthdays: his own and Abe Rosenthal's. Next May 2 the Times's powerful executive editor reaches the paper's mandatory retirement age of 65, and speculation about who will succeed him at the helm of the nation's most influential newspaper has been intense. Now, more than six months before Rosenthal must step down, the long-anticipated transition is at hand. On Nov. 1, the newspaper announced in its Sunday issue, Rosenthal will be replaced by Max Frankel, 56, editor of the Times's editorial...