Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaker McNaughton, a veteran correspondent who covered Congress from TIME'S Washington office for ten years, spoke mainly about domestic politics on his tour, and was struck by one special concern among the students he met. That concern was academic freedom, congressional investigations and Communism. Wrote McNaughton: "I have spoken at some 50 colleges and universities. I have sat in bull sessions with hundreds of students, and answered thousands of questions in open forums. It is my belief that if the Communists are depending on the professors to achieve their revolution, they are betting a miserably weak hand...
...months, Veteran Author Ben (The Front Page) Hecht had spent four nights a week in front of his TV set, and it was a disturbing experience. But Hecht, sometime newspaperman, playwright, movie scenarist and novelist, felt it was necessary before setting to work on his first TV drama series, Tales of the City (alternate Thursdays, 8:30 p.m., CBS). His conclusions about TV: "There is no such thing as action in television. All the actors do is pretend there has been action-they pant and they groan and they tell you how far they have just run. TV seems dedicated...
...Miguel was not good enough. The matches ended last week in the same old story: Reshevsky, 9½ games; Najdorf, 8½. Angry Najdorf rolled his eyes heavenward and snorted: "This man has his own personal god." But a veteran local chess player was more pragmatic about implacable Sammy Reshevsky's victory: "Reshevsky plays chess like a man who eats fish; first he takes out the bones and then he swallows the fish...
Often the argument that can be made for the public operations of a TVA or new projects too big or risky for private industry is used to justify many another project. But even a veteran public-power advocate like Bonneville's Administrator Paul Raver now argues that the Government need not control northwest projects, that they should be built, financed and run by interstate authorities. Thus, when there is a will to get the Government out of business, it can unquestionably be done. To do so, the new Administration will have to overcome all the resistance, obstruction, delay...
Martin Agronsky (Sun. 9 p.m., ABC). Veteran radio newsman begins a new series...