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...targets are so inclusive-nearly all politicians and women's rights advocates, many fellow journalists and people who wear white socks-that he is doubtless on many enemies lists. Unlike most press scolds, who tend to ignore social trivia for headier political game, Frazier has anchored his reputation by roasting the large and the small with equal flair. He regularly assaults national institutions like Howard Cosell ("commits a public disturbance every time he opens his mouth"). But he also stalks such Main Street game as deer hunters ("revolting humanoids") and people who call up radio talk shows ("idiots...
...Wizard of Oz (1939): Now, isn't it about time that some good, clean, family entertainment appeared on television? Actually, this is the Wizard's 16th incarnation. Some trivia: When editing the film in 1939, MGM executives decided to drop the "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" number. Too sentimental, they said; slows down the film. Lyricist E.Y. Harburg talked them out of it. Aren't you glad? Ch. 4, 6:30 p.m. Color (except for the scenes in Kansas), 2 hours...
Part 5: Baseball Trivia...
Radio. To a generation raised on the Top 40 and all-news formats, the word means little more than an appliance for interrupting silence. But to anyone over 35, it connotes a vast and magic theater of sound, a great coliseum of trivia and nostalgia. That coliseum will be opened to visitors this month when radio takes a giant step backward. The new CBS Radio Mystery Theater will broadcast an original drama every night of the week -including Sundays. The plays take full advantage of aural illusions and allow listeners to collaborate as they did in a vanished...
...donating his vice-presidential papers to the National Archives. The papers had been prepared or gathered while he was on the public payroll, primarily using public facilities and the services of other federal employees. To the non-expert, Nixon's papers might seem to contain a lode of trivia. Occupying 825 cu. ft, they include 414,000 letters, 87,000 items relating to public appearances (including speech texts), 27,000 invitations (along with acceptances and refusals) and 57,000 items relating to foreign trips. Nonetheless, this material could well be valuable to historians who one day will attempt...