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Until recently, controversy on TV was considered as offensive as dead air. Sponsors would not have it, and neither would the viewers - or so it was supposed. Only a few commentators with clout, including Edward R. Murrow and Eric Sevareid, could get away with expressing sharp personal opinion. And certainly nobody succeeded with blatantly risque humor. This past season, the Smothers Brothers, Rowan and Martin, and Johnny Carson, among others, have waged a deliberate campaign to get sex jokes past the censor - whom Carson sardonically calls "Miss Priscilla Goodbody." But it is in the realm of serious discussion that television...
Couve is a unusual man in an unusual situation. He has neither a political following nor the flair for creating one. He does not even have any special clout within the Gaullist party. His power resides solely in his relationship with the man whom he serves-a fact that must please De Gaulle. Up to now, Couve has always acknowledged that he knew who was boss. "There are no problems between myself and the general," he once said. "If there were, my role would be to yield to him." But last week Couve hinted that he would stand...
...charging," says Mickey Stanley. "Every day, it is somebody else who gets the job done. That may sound like 'High School Harry,' but that's the case." In one game against the second-place Cleveland Indians last week, Northrup forgot his aching knee long enough to clout a brace of grand-slam homers and tie a big-league record.* In another, it was Dick Tracewski, a .170 batter, who hit a game-winning homer to beat the Indians 4-1. "Now I have nothing to look forward to for the rest of the year," said Tracewski with...
Albany taught him not to attack a political power structure unless he had the votes. Thereafter he aimed desultorily at intransigent merchants, more emphatically at the national heart. His horizon grew, and with it his clout. In 1963 he marched into Birmingham, tac tically prepared, and flayed that citadel of Dixie bigotry on national television. Public Safety Commissioner Theophilus ("Bull") Connor became the white villain for King's black heroes as they marched-clad in their Sunday clothes -to meet his truncheons, hoses and dogs. That world-arousing spectacle brought whites flocking to the civil rights movement...
...Office Clout. Newman's official title at NBC is "critic at large." Over the network's New York City channel, he reviews opera and theater, and commands a respectable following. One recognition of Newman's box-office clout is that Producer David Merrick, who calls him "the undertaker," tried to bar him from the theater and demanded equal time to answer an embalming review. This was a characteristic Merrick publicity ploy, but then Merrick judged his adversary shrewdly...