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Directed by RICHARD C. SARAFIAN Screenplay by MORT FINE, ALAN TRUSTMAN, DAVID M. WOLF and RICHARD C. SARAFIAN
...Beautiful autumn in New York! Mort Fine is doing a great job on Dave Wolf's rewrite. Shooting starts soon. Director arrives tomorrow. Cornelia is looking forward to meeting...
...presidential race has not been a laughing matter. "The banality of the candidates destroys humorous comment," complains Roger Angell, humorist and a fiction editor of The New Yorker. To Johnny Carson, Carter v. Ford is "fear of the unknown v. fear of the known." Chirped veteran Mockingbird Mort Sahl: "Choosing between them is like choosing between Seconal and Nembutal...
...sooner. Ford and Carter came into the campaign like Herblock caricatures. The Hard-Nosed Bumbler ("We must either shorten our Presidents or lengthen our helicopter doors," said Bill Vaughan) was opposed by the Born-Again Peanut Farmer ("I pray 25 times a day," Carter was misquoted by Mort Sahl, "but I've never asked God to make me President because I didn't want to take advantage of the relationship"), with teeth like Bugs Bunny ("That man can eat a pineapple through a tennis racket," observed Comedian Pat Paulsen). But Ford's maladroitness as a topic...
Criticism of Harvard's laissez-faire attitude toward journalism has come from both inside and outside the University. Mort Stern, editorial writer for the Denver Post, dean of the University of Colorado School of Journalism, and a former Nieman Fellow, said he has drawn the conclusion "that there is nothing wrong with a Harvard man or woman becoming a skilled journalist, so long as Harvard has done nothing overt to cause it. That would explain," he said, "why no such stigma applies to the Nieman Fellows, who acquired their journalistic skills elsewhere and merely use them to draw the best...