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...What the engine is to the automobile," said M.C. David Susskind on his talkathon Open End, "the writer is to a theatrical production. Our guests tonight are seven Cadillacs, the key creators of many of TV's finest hours." The Cadillacs: Robert Alan Arthur, Paddy Chayevsky, Sumner Locke Elliott. James Lee, J. P. Miller, Tad Mosel, David Shaw-almost all of whom have abandoned TV. As a producer (Du Pont Show of the Month) and the Custer of live TV drama (TIME, June 2), Susskind wanted to know why the writers had given up. Why not stay...
...Pittsburgh, Pa. 65 Barthelmes, Richard B. '61 G 19 5.11 185 Hamden, Conn. 66 Wilson, Roger K. '61 G 19 6.1 190 Sioux Falls, S. D. 67 Finley, Alexander '61 G 19 6.0 190 Washington, D. C. 68 Weidler, Jerry L. '60 G 20 6.3 220 Sumner, Iowa 70 Pillsbury, Robert L. '61 T 18 6.0 200 Norwood, Mass. 71 Nelson, K. Eric '61 T 19 6.2 210 Washington, D. C. 72 Anderson, Harold E. '59 G 21 6.3 215 Medford, Mass. 73 Shaunessy, Robert T. '59 T 21 6.2 230 N. Attleboro, Mass. 74 Greelish, William...
...Pittsburgh, Pa. 65 Barthelmes, Richard B. '61 G 19 5.11 185 Hamden, Conn. 66 Wilson, Roger K. '61 G 19 6.1 190 Sioux Falls, S.D. 67 Finley, Alexander '61 G 19 6.0 190 Washington, D.C. 68 Weidler, Jerry L. '60 G 20 6.3 220 Sumner, Iowa 70 Pillsbury, Robert L. '61 T 18 6.0 200 Norwood, Mass. 71 Nelson, K. Eric '61 T 19 6.2 210 Washington, D.C. 72 Anderson, Harold E. '59 G 21 6.3 215 Medford, Mass. 73 Shaunessy, Robert T. '59 T 21 6.2 230 N. Attleboro, Mass. 74 Greelish, William...
...Pittsburgh, Pa. 65 Barthelmes, Richard B. '61 G 19 5.11 185 Hamden, Conn. 66 Wilson, Roger K. '61 G 19 6.1 190 Sioux Falls, S.D. 67 Finley, Alexander '61 G 19 6.0 190 Washington, D.C. 68 Weidler, Jerry L. '60 G 20 6.3 220 Sumner, Iowa 70 Pillsbury, Robert L. '61 T 18 6.0 200 Norwood, Mass. 71 Nelson, K. Eric '61 T 19 6.2 210 Washington, D.C. 72 Anderson, Harold E. '59 G 21 6.3 215 Medford, Mass. 73 Shaunessy, Robert T. '59 T 21 6.2 230 N. Attleboro, Mass. 74 Greelish, William...
...appeared serially in Echo de Paris, the book has enjoyed a kind of scandalous celebrity among men of letters. Zola attacked Huysmans; Maupassant, Verlaine and others defended him. In 1924, the present publishers report, Là-Bas was is sued in the U.S. but ran afoul of John S. Sumner, industrious secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Vice. Publisher Albert Boni agreed to withdraw the book and destroy the plates. Now, a generation later, readers may well be of two minds as to who had the right of the matter - the celebrated bluenose or the historian of "Bluebeard...