Word: vandercook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Almost ten years since the book's publication, he still gets 200 letters a year about Johnny from readers all over the world, many enclosing money, pressed flowers or a poem. Gunther and his second wife Jane, whom he married in 1948 (her first husband: Newscaster John W. Vandercook), are the parents of a handsome, adopted two-year-old named Nicholas, over whom, as a friend says, "John glows and grins like a fond mother...
...fascinating job of hustling televiewers inside their biggest studio. To make things easier, they superimposed arrows and circles on the screen to single out key figures. NBC commentators loomed into view in the shape of triangles, sometimes peeped through keyholes. But as ABC's debearded (for TV) John Vandercook mused: "Sometimes I think we suffer from embarrassment of riches...
...confuse a process with a crime, and if the Gorgonzola is smelling up the house, then change the cheese, but, in God's name, do not forget that the house has to get rid of its dirty rats!" Others-e.g., Quincy Howe, Elmer Davis and John Vandercook-took after McCarthy with verbal scalpels...
...John Womack Vandercook, 51, the C.I.O. gets a globe-trotting author (most notable of his ten books: Black Majesty, a 1928 bestseller about Haiti's famed King Christophe) and onetime (1940-46) NBC correspondent (TIME, Jan. 10, 1944). His cultured, velvety voice was last heard on a 1952 TV show, Campaigning with Stevenson. Unlike A.F.L.'s Edwards, who swings a crusader's meat ax at "the big-business boys." Vandercook (who will be on ABC's payroll) expects to deliver a quiet "expository commentary'' without a heavy pro-labor slant. "He seemed...
...C.I.O. expects to use its commercial time to play down its reputation as the brash young giant of U.S. labor. In line with this subdued pitch, some C.I.O. leaders began looking askance at Vandercook's black Vandyke beard, which he has worn ever since hiking 600 miles through the Cameroons 25 years ago. Was it possible that he would look too much like a "character" to listeners? Vandercook rose voluntarily to the occasion: last week in a Manhattan hotel room, he sadly shaved off his beard...