Word: tv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suddenly Annemarie was a celebrity. A literary agent took charge of her publicity; Attorney Roy Cohn stood by to guard her legal interests. New job offers of up to $35,000 poured in. TV programs, including Johnny Carson, vied for her appearance (reports notwithstanding, she had not made a pilot film), and publishers bid for her cookbook (still uncompleted). As for Jacqueline Kennedy, at week's end she was still looking for another cook...
Masters officials then marched him off to the clubhouse to prepare for a TV interview. Minutes later, they called him back - and informed him that his card was inaccurate. On the 71st hole, in full view of the gallery and countless millions of TV watchers, Roberto had scored a birdie three. But his playing partner and scorekeeper, Tommy Aaron, had marked him down for a par four - and De Vicenzo had not caught the error. Under Rule No. 38, that four stood official, giving Roberto a 278 instead of a 277. When Bob Goalby later came in with...
...pocketbook. "People always feel they have neglected their pet," says Morris Levinson, president of Associated Products, which sells Rival. "To help solve the guilt feelings, they want to feed their pet better-like themselves." "Who knows what greatness lives in the heart of a dog? We do," runs the TV commercial for General Foods' Gaines Gravy Train. Purina notes in its advertising: "All you add is love...
...Frank sounds slightly beleaguered, it is only understandable. All winter long, he and other TV newsmen have been warding off a chilly gale of complaints from Senators, Congressmen, city officials, policemen and viewers in general. The most frequent charge leveled by the critics is that television, with its vast reach and visual impact, is in a sense the germ carrier that spreads the plague of riots across the U.S. The question, in short, is whether the sight of a Harlem youth hurling a brick through a store window and shouting "Black Power!" induces a ghetto teen ager in Detroit...
...TV newsmen say no, yet their generally restrained coverage of the "disturbances" following the King assassination, compared with the full-blast coverage of last summer's riots, proves that television need not err on the side of sensationalism. Though the President's riot commission report tends to discount TV's role as an inciter it guardedly adds that "the question is far-reaching and a sure answer is beyond the range of presently available scientific techniques...