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...Kate Rooney, a former administrator at Princeton, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Boston City Hospital, will fill the newly created post of associate dean for administration at the Graduate School of Design...
...Rooney was a correspondent for Stars and Stripes during World War II, and embarked on a freelance writing career. "I spent six weeks on a piece for Harper's and got $350 for it," he recalls. "I realized I was not going to make it as a magazine writer." From 1949 to 1955, he was Arthur Godfrey's radio and television writer, at a more comfortable $625 a week...
Shortly after teaming up with Reasoner at CBS in 1962, Rooney began exploring the mundane in earnest, turning out half-hour TV essays on such topics as chairs, doors and bridges. Throughout their six-year collaboration, it was Reasoner on camera and Rooney in the background, writing and producing. Says he: "It never occurred to me to be the guy reading my stuff...
...then, in a characteristic run-in with the powers that be, Rooney quit over CBS's refusal to air his essay on war-written, he recalls, from the perspective of "a soft hardhat." The network sold him the piece for a nominal sum, and he took it to public television. Minus his old frontman, Rooney narrated the documentary, and so it was that his on-camera career was launched...
...this way: Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland are conspicuously absent from Fame. And they are missed, along with those innocent movies where someone cried out: "Hey kids, I've got an idea - let's put on a show...