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...though he concludes that "most TV is simply trash, and I don't have the time." Washington's Governor Daniel Evans prefers the Bell Telephone Hour, I Spy and the public affairs programs. Tennessee's Governor Buford Ellington goes for pro football, Perry Como and Lawrence Welk...
Massachusetts' former Senator Leverett Saltonstall enjoys Welk and Jackie Gleason as well. New York's Mayor John Lindsay seems to find time for nothing but news between the Today and Tonight shows. Los Angeles' Mayor Sam Yorty rates news and sports his favorites, then Daktari, Gunsmoke and tapes of his own weekly interview show...
...roll, blue-eyed soul." You have to sit up close to verify that Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield do indeed have blue eyes, but you could have sat anyplace in the Back Bay Theatre and figured out that the Righteous Brothers have about as much soul as Laurence Welk. And this is something not to be realized lightly by one who had devoutly kept "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" on her all-time-great list despite the disdain of more sophisticated patrons...
...conservatism often placed him not only outside the mainstream of U.S. opinion but outside shouting distance of the river bed as well, it still is a sorry commentary on the press that some editors apparently became disenchanted with him because he supported Goldwater ("It's time the Lawrence Welk people had their say"), criticized the Kennedys ("Instant Adamses"), and loftily dismissed President Johnson ("an uninspiring, uninspired...
...kind words for Henry Cabot Lodge, Charles de Gaulle, and Goldwater supporters. "I think it's time that the Lawrence Welk people had their say," wrote O'Hara. "The Lester Lanin and Dizzy Gillespie people have been on too long. When the country is in trouble, like war kind of trouble, man, it is the Lawrence Welk people who can be depended upon...