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Dial-the-Radio. The trend away from packaged format continues, and the direction is toward talk, talk, talk. Joe Pyne, who gives his viewers a thrill by insulting guests, is running on 46 stations. David Susskind's discussion show hits 17 stations. William F. Buckley Jr., on 20 stations, commands one of the more intelligent talk shows. Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty is a regular chatterbox on local TV, joshing away with Pierre Salinger or George Jessel, and Comic Mort Sahl has found a Los Angeles TV soapbox from which to harangue an avid following with his prophecies...
...television network executive and an advertising agent attempted to defend commercial TV against producer David Susskind's charges of "mediocrity" at the Winthrop House Forum last night...
...Susskind's response was to brand their words "utter nonsense." "Commercial television," he said, "is a shotgun marriage between big business and show business. If a piece of art eventuates, it is a gorgeous coincidence...
...injected much of the emotionalism into the dispute, called the police's conduct a "brutal and obscene sight." Chemistry Professor George Pimentel countered that only civil law could deal with "demagoguery, vituperation and threats," said that "everything I love at Berkeley is at stake." Electrical Engineering Professor Charles Susskind compared the agitators with "the Nazi students whom I saw in the 1930s harassing deans, hounding professors and their families." The senate finally voted 795 to 28 to deplore the use of external police "except in extreme emergency" but to urge an immediate end of the strike and "to affirm...
Buckley indulges in such gibes because he thinks the program openings need "gingering." At least twice so far his visitors have taken offense. David Susskind never recovered from Buckley's introduction of him as "a staunch liberal-if there were a contest for the title Mr. Eleanor Roosevelt, he would unquestionably win it." Norman Thomas got rankled after Buckley began, "If I were asked what has been his specialty in the course of a long career, I guess I would say, 'Being wrong.' " Buckley did feel a little regretful about those programs, and has tried to keep...