Word: tv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Race. What's wrong? Every baseball mogul has a theory. Cincinnati's Robert Howsam blames the weather: "In 22 of our first 26 games we had either rain or the threat of it." Others pick on TV and the unattractiveness of older big-league stadiums, at least two of which-Chicago's Comiskey Park and Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium-are located in ghetto areas, which many fans are afraid to traverse at night. The pitchers' domination of the sport and the concurrent decline in hitting (as of last week only eight major-leaguers were...
Open up, speak out, controversy before caution, and the hell with the censors. That sums up the mood of TV 1968, and it cuts across all phases of programming...
Until recently, controversy on TV was considered as offensive as dead air. Sponsors would not have it, and neither would the viewers - or so it was supposed. Only a few commentators with clout, including Edward R. Murrow and Eric Sevareid, could get away with expressing sharp personal opinion. And certainly nobody succeeded with blatantly risque humor. This past season, the Smothers Brothers, Rowan and Martin, and Johnny Carson, among others, have waged a deliberate campaign to get sex jokes past the censor - whom Carson sardonically calls "Miss Priscilla Goodbody." But it is in the realm of serious discussion that television...
Battle of Talkathons. Much of TV's comment and controversy are heard on the day-and-night conversation shows, which seem to be trying to turn TV into a talkathon. They frantically compete with each other for big-name, talkers. Joey Bishop interviews Ronald Reagan, Carson brings on Ayn Rand, Merv Griffin chats with Bertrand Russell. One night, Dick Cavett has Norman Mailer as his guest, the next night he leads a spirited discussion between James Bald win and Yale Philosopher Paul Weiss...
Died. Westbrook Van Voorhis, 64, the voice on the March of Time radio, movie and TV documentaries from 1931 to 1953 when the Time Inc. shows ended; of cancer; in New Milford, Conn. A colleague once said that Van Voorhis' delivery sounded "like the voice of God." His authoritative style set the tone for a generation of radio newsmen, and his "Time marches on" put a new phrase into the language...