Word: york
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just before testifying last week, Charles made a last-ditch attempt to wangle favored treatment from newsmen. To the nation's top TV critics and commentators-NBC's Chet Huntley, the New York Times's Jack Gould, the New York Herald Tribune's John Crosby, et al.-he mailed copies of his prepared statement along with personal notes looking for sympathy. Wrote he to Critic Crosby: "I wanted you to have a copy of this complete from my own hand. It's not a pleasant story, but I tried to make it a true...
...Came to Love Charles." Many of the nation's editorial writers were unmoved. The New York Post's Columnist William V. Shannon summed it up for the dissidents when he called Van Doren's testimony "a tasteless exercise in guile and unction. The basic problem seems to be his iron egotism. Can't we have a manly, straightforward admission of error without all this hokum about his 'responsibilities to my fellow men'? . . . I could not care less whether Charlie Van Doren made $10 or $129,000. But dignity, self-respect, restraint and detachment...
...never have risen to their present power were it not for the fact that, as Packager (Screen Gems) Harry Ackerman puts it, "the networks are run by businessmen, not showmen." Robert Edmonds Kintner, 50, has no quarrel with that situation. A Swarthmore graduate, he started out as a New York Herald Tribune Wall Street reporter in 1933. Son of a Stroudsburg (Pa.) schoolteacher, Cub Kintner, a lean, spectacled Hall-of-Ivy type at the time, at first "didn't even know where Wall Street was." But he learned quickly. Though an ardent New Dealer and F.D.R. favorite, able Newsman...
...commercials. Hence, unlike Madison Avenue ad agencies, they cannot dictate the kind of "programing concepts" that, originality-wise, may be nowhere, but that, rating-wise, are surefire. Nor can they exert pettifogging censorship; e.g., on one drama show, Ford ordered the producers to kill a shot of the New York skyline because it highlighted the Chrysler Building...
...women patients in ward 37 at New York's St. Lawrence State Hospital, overlooking the seaway then abuilding, were all agitated and ill at ease, and one was frantic. A housemaid from Alabama by way of Chicago, she rushed up to the nurse supervisor, shouting: "Mrs. Holmes has gone crazy-crazier than we are-she won't lock the door!" As a matter of fact, Attendant Irene Holmes was doing just what the doctor ordered. First, the doors of individual wards, then of whole buildings, were being unlocked and left unlocked for lengthening periods up to twelve hours...