Word: yeare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gilbert. Agents overheard a conversation between Coach Norm Ellenberger and Manny Goldstein, his assistant, in which Goldstein said he arranged to get some credits for Gilbert by paying $300 to John Woolley, dean of admissions at Oxnard College in Oxnard, Calif. Gilbert had gone to school there for one year. The plan was to have Woolley certify that Gilbert had earned the credits at, of all unlikely places, Mercer County Community College in Trenton, N.J. Gilbert, a Californian, had never gone to far-off Mercer, but Goldstein, who is from Brooklyn, knew his way around the place. Somehow...
Florey decided to sue the Sioux Falls school board, but earlier this year a South Dakota federal judge rejected the Florey case, declaring that religious music and art have "become integrated into our national culture and heritage." The school board, meanwhile, had worked out a guideline policy, permitting the use of religious music, Jewish as well as Christian, in "a prudent and objective manner" in programs balancing religious and secular aspects of any holiday...
...loss to CBS is the strongest indication yet that its era of sovereignty is over. Explains Joel Segal, a senior vice president at the Ted Bates agency: "Minus the World Series and 1978 election night, ABC is down 10%, CBS up 5% and NBC up 2%, compared with last year. This is the beginning of a three-way horse race." Since a single rating point is worth $40 million to $50 million in advertising revenue to a network, this horse race is not being run merely for a trophy...
...dramatic series, Skag, starring Karl Maiden. This summer NBC has the bonanza of the Olympic Games. Says Advertising Executive Chuck Bachrach: "The jury is out on Silverman. If he can maintain his standing until the Olympics, then I think everyone has a shot at No. 1 for next year...
...Lillian Gish has finally become slightly age sensitive. "Whenever I tell anyone what's on my birth certificate," complains the stage and movie actress, who began her career as a child and became a silent screen star with late Sister Dorothy, "they always add a few years." But Gish is not altogether bashful about her fourscore and three. Holding court at a White House reception last week honoring the performing arts, she recalled the first time she and Dorothy were invited to the presidential mansion. It was for a special showing of their movie, Orphans of the Storm...