Word: sheehan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WELFARE MOTHER is a footnote to New York City life. It presents a tiny bit of information, intentionally limited in scope, on what ought to be at least one very long chapter in the book of New York: welfare and the Department of Social Services. Susan Sheehan, a writer on the staff of the New Yorker, where this work first appeared in a slightly different form, has written a profile of a Puerto Rican welfare mother, describing for 95 pages the daily comings and goings of Carmen Santana and her family...
...Campbell, Fitzsimmons and Sheehan, but you know about them...
...routine were not hard enough, unheralded sophomore Ed Sheehan started doing greyhound imitations on the long-distance runs...
...pronunciamento beat ABC to the verdict by seconds, CBS by 15 minutes.* "We're hypercautious," admitted Walter Cronkite. "We're always first," said a happy NBC News President Richard Wald as he munched tortilla chips at his Rockefeller Center election command post. To which William Sheehan, Wald's counterpart at ABC, replied: "I'd be satisfied to call...
...shift), officials of all three networks said they would stress accuracy over speed on Election Night. NBC, for example, forbade staff members to tell its vote analysts about any competitors' returns, for fear of hastening NBC projections. Somewhere along the way, however, caution failed to thwart competitiveness. When Sheehan learned that CBS had awarded Pennsylvania to Carter, he phoned an ABC analyst and said, "CBS just called Pennsylvania and it looks good." CBS's early boldness eventually backfired; the network had to retract a projection of a Carter win in Oregon. Said NBC Executive Producer Gordon Manning...