Word: turner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really ardent devotee of the Late Show, you will doubtless remember a picture called Green Dolphin Street, a Lana Turner-Van Heflin epic of the mid-'40's. In this one, Turner and Heflin are madly tempestuously in love amidst the turmoil of young growing New Zealand, complete with floods, forest fires, earthquakes, childbirth, and assorted variations on the seven deadly sins...
...quite succeeded in adjusting to daily journalism. Now he will return to the New Republic as associate literary editor, and talk about "The Art of the Film" on TV. "It's not so much letting Mr. Kauffmann go as asking Mr. Kerr to come in," said Executive Editor Turner Catledge, who admits to having approached Kerr twice before. "Kerr seems to suit the New York readership better...
That's how it is with the blues at Theresa's, a basement bistro deep in the Negro ghetto of Chicago's South Side. On good nights, the scene is lowdown and swinging, too, a few blocks away at Pepper's or Turner's Blue Lounge, or out on the West Side at Smoot's or Silvio's. Indeed, such a wealth and variety of authentic blues abounds in Chicago today that Musicologist Samuel Charters says: "It's the last place left in the country where a living music is still played...
...paper was floundering, and staff morale sank. The Trib had ample gimmicks but little direction. "Editorially," says New York Times Executive Editor Turner Catledge, "they couldn't seem to make up their minds whether to slug it out toe-to-toe with us or to try to outflank us." The Trib still had stars: Drama Critic Walter Kerr, TV Critic John Crosby, Fashion Editor Eugenia Sheppard, Food Editor Clementine Paddle-ford; Columnists Red Smith, Art Buchwald, Joe Alsop and Walter Lippmann; Pulitzer Prizewinning Korean War Correspondents Homer Bigart and Marguerite Higgins. But while they still provided some bite...
Nobody was accusing Busch, Humphrey or Baseball Fan Turner of any wrongdoing. Still, reporters inquired tenderly of White House Press Secretary Bill Moyers whether businessmen might not get the impression that the President's Club was a vehicle for buying favor from the Administration. No more so, deadpanned Moyers, than the Rockefeller family's contributions to the G.O.P. were aimed at buying favor. Actually, explained the Justice Depart ment, the antitrust suit against Anheuser-Busch was a weak one and had been dropped "on the merits alone...