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...majority of the girls were dissatisfied with the present 11 p.m. weekday closing time and asked that both library and circulation desk be open until midnight, the closing time of Lamont...
...Miami ferries as many as 5,000 vacationers a month to the Bahamas, often runs 18 flights a day. Chicago's Executive Airlines specializes in flying newsmen to the scene of riots and disasters, also frequently carries such luminaries as Bob Hope, Barry Goldwater and Jackie Kennedy. Every weekday a Cessna 172 floatplane from Lake Union Air Service whisks Chip Prentice, 7, between his island summer home on Puget Sound and school in Seattle 15 miles away. Cost to his dad, the owner of two manufacturing firms: $16 a day, round trip. When Winthrop Rockefeller or ex-Labor Tycoon...
...Every weekday morning for the past three years, New York Philharmonic Managing Director Carlos Moseley, en route to his office, has walked across a vast open tract of Central Park known as the Sheep Meadow. Decided Moseley: "This is the place for an enormous Philharmonic party." A fine idea, orchestra officials agreed, music for the masses and all that. But will the people come? Last week, in the first of a series of 12 evening outdoor concerts, they got their answer. The people started arriving at noon, toting picnic baskets and blankets. By late afternoon, long processionals-young couples...
...that time at night when the news is over and some smily-toothed character is guessing tomorrow's weather. At that moment insomniacs all over America grab for the TV schedule to check the late and late late movies. Every weekday night, 260 weekday nights a year, some 8,700,000 of them decide against the films in favor of spending their last waking hour and 45 minutes with Johnny Carson...
...Fred Friendly, now president of CBS News, produced a provocative news special, See It Now, which courted controversy in notoriously timid medium. Their most famous program was a devastatingly understated attack on Senator Joe McCarthy in his heyday. Murrow also broadcast the news for 15 minutes every weekday night for 13 years, beginning each program with the solemn intonation: "This ... is ... the . . . news." Murrow hosted a lightweight but highly profitable program, Person to Person, in which he invaded two celebrities' homes each week to exchange idle but engaging chitchat. On the nation's TV sets, he could...