Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Each Carney performance is full of such remembered observations. One of six sons of a newspaperman, Art grew up in a New York City suburb, perfecting a talent for mimicry. His first gig was imitating F.D.R. in comedy bits for the Horace Heidt band. "It was pure dynamite," he recalls. His skill won him a job in radio. "Acting on the radio gave me my first experience in a lot of different character parts. It was the only training I ever had." After war service and bit parts on television, Carney was picked to play Jackie Gleason's sidekick...
...explain why solid, apparently incontrovertible evidence, like the blow up of the Zapruder film, is submerged beneath a mass of nonsensical and distorted material. For example, immediately after the showing of the film, as the participants in the conference were introducing themselves, one of them. Penn Jones, a newspaperman who has devoted the last ten years of his life to tracing what became of the witnesses to the J.F.K. assassination, made an announcement: he knew that Adlai Stevenson had been murdered in London, another victim of a massive, as yet unidentified conspiracy...
Over all this lay something more. Two weeks before a North American newspaperman named Jack Anderson had told the world what Allende had been telling Chileans for years. ITT, an American corporation, had attempted to influence the electoral process in Chile through the CIA. Moreover, ITT was involved in efforts to provoke the Chilean military into a coup, and to cut off all international financial aid to Chile. ITT had also funded Allende's major opponent in the press, the newspaper E1 Mercurio, owned and operated by the Edwards family, which was popularly identified as Chile's most capitalistic...
...thorough liberal. As majority leader in the Oregon legislature, AuCoin, 32, championed environmental issues, consumer protection and civil rights. His opponent, Diarmuid O'Scannlain, former director of Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality, was similarly strong in supporting protective environmental measures. But AuCoin, a former newspaperman and university publicist, proved more impressive on television and ran a better-organized, labor-supported campaign...
Japanese newspapers reported the remarks last month, but officials had no reaction until a Japanese newspaperman noted last weekend that no formal response from the government had been made...