Word: talkathon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North Carolina was gripped by a talkathon mania, and the leading contestants were all women. Fayetteville's radio station WFLB set the format: the contestants started talking before an audience outside the plate-glass window of a TV appliance store, kept on until exhaustion, sleep or urgencies of nature ended the ordeal. Other North Carolina stations matched WFLB's stunt, upped the prize value progressively to $3,000. Sue Huron, a Pittsburgh secretary of 22, kept Fayetteville station WFAI busy crackling out regular reports on her monologue of 92 hrs. 1 min. 4 sec. Then Kansas got into...
Replacing the old-fashioned fiery public debate, TV's countless panels run a week-long talkathon on every conceivable subject. To Literary Critic Diana Trilling, it seems a bad trade. The trouble: TV's moderators. Wrote Critic Trilling last week in the New York Herald Tribune: "If there was once a time when the moderator was a referee between antagonists, today he is a ubiquitous avoider or smoother-over of differences. One of the most distinguished is Howard K. Smith of The Great Challenge (CBS). Let one of the discussants so much as intimate a fresh idea...
Holcombe said he had fixed his odds in September and has seen little reason for changing them. "Eisenhower's talkathon will help bring out the vote," he concluded yesterday, "but it will not effect any great change. The Democrats have not lost ground...
...being an "internationalist." Unlike his 1948 coonskin-cap barnstorm ing, Kefauver's campaign was dignified; he soft-pedaled his internationalist and gang-busting lines, stressing what he had done for Tennessee. By campaign's end there was evidence that Pat Sutton had talked too much. During one talkathon, he had labeled a friend of Kefauver as a "known Communist." Later he apologized, but that did not stop Kefauver's friend from hitting him with a $1,500,000 slander suit...
Before dawn broke that morning, Oregon's Wayne Morse, the Senate's alltime talkathon champion (22 hours, 26 minutes in last year's tidelands filibuster), strutted onto the Senate floor sporting a red, red rose. "This is a filibuster. I never fly under false colors," he rasped, adding that he would orate until the rose wilted...