Word: viewers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called The Empty Chair, both of which are genuine works by David Bles, who simply made a larger version of his first Chair. Visitors were urged to fill out questionnaires identifying unlabeled fakes and genuine pictures; of 1,827 - including some experts- only seven scored 100%. (Wrote one canny viewer: "This picture can't be real, because if it were, there'd be a guard here...
...Ripping Girl. Rupert Hart-Davies, one of Walpole's executors and a close friend, has not attempted in his biography to psychoanalyze Walpole. He has simply drawn, from a mass of hearsay, letters and diaries, a completely detailed portrait which each viewer may appraise for himself. The only warning Hart-Davies gives the appraisers is not to suppose that Walpole (as is often suggested) was a potentially "great writer" who "deliberately surrendered this possibility in favor of money and popular success." Says Hart-Davies: "Every book he wrote contained all that ... he knew how to include...
...experiment," Pundit Walter Lippmann stayed away from the convention for the first time in as long as he can remember, relying on a borrowed TV set for his coverage. But Lippmann, like many another TV-viewer, also leaned heavily on the work of hundreds of newspaper reporters. Throughout the convention, soaring newspaper sales indicated that TV probably whets the appetite for newspaper news, rather than dulls it. Said Editor Louis Seltzer, putting his finger on the big flaw in TV coverage alone: "The people at the convention can't tell what's happening without expert advice, and neither...
...provide interpretive material. Why did Joe Blow make that kind of a speech? What influence did it have? What votes did it change? Also, forward-looking stories telling the readers what to expect that evening on TV . . . telling what happened in the back rooms and caucuses the TV viewer...
...shout . . . make your points through informal, friendly conversation. Remember, your eyes as well as your voice reveal your sincerity to the viewer...