tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31315614039795691002024-03-18T20:20:41.306-07:00The Lucky Strike PapersA Book About Network Television in the late 1940s and early 1950s, by Andrew Lee Fielding. Originally published in 2007 by BearManor Media. Revised Edition published in 2019. See also: www.andrewleefielding.com, or www.earlytelevision.net
Andrew Lee Fieldinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251193818294226253noreply@blogger.comBlogger681125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131561403979569100.post-30289485305438481092024-03-17T20:28:00.000-07:002024-03-17T21:54:37.063-07:00"Your Hit Parade," NBC-TV, St. Patrick's Day, 1951<p>Here is a screen shot of a video--a video made from a kinescope--from the March 17, 1951 St. Patrick's Day telecast of <i>Your Hit Parade</i>, on NBC (seventy-three years ago today).<br /></p><p>The image is of a production number, that night, of the Irish-themed popular song "MacNamara's Band." <br /></p><p>The performers, for the number, were the Hit Paraders (the program's vocal/choral group), and the <i>Hit</i> <i>Parade</i> dancers.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In the foreground of the picture is the dance team of Fosse & Niles, who appeared often on <i>Your Hit Parade</i> during the program's 1950-1951 season. </p><p>In addition to being a dance team, Bob Fosse and Mary Ann Niles were married to one another (though they would divorce in 1951, the year of this broadcast). </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1-DuzdHARrEl6OeDjOcbzd3zyUSrQ1X-BEfNydXCPjv9-gS8DEu74RED2PtjjexcP4Wr7Oo2Fuoqsgj4Y6WXECd3Msp-1OkRY9aSZHsZLyLbcWidQ8SZGQWmGogMf11emEk_QAgTYOAaTcH1a5gLxxoepquSB38AId1qREnYrByUs_nlv_8M6_gRMEF5d/s544/%232%20Hit%20Parade%20screen%20shot%20St%20Patrick's%20Day%20Fosse%20&%20Niles%20March%2017%201951.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="418" data-original-width="544" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1-DuzdHARrEl6OeDjOcbzd3zyUSrQ1X-BEfNydXCPjv9-gS8DEu74RED2PtjjexcP4Wr7Oo2Fuoqsgj4Y6WXECd3Msp-1OkRY9aSZHsZLyLbcWidQ8SZGQWmGogMf11emEk_QAgTYOAaTcH1a5gLxxoepquSB38AId1qREnYrByUs_nlv_8M6_gRMEF5d/w400-h308/%232%20Hit%20Parade%20screen%20shot%20St%20Patrick's%20Day%20Fosse%20&%20Niles%20March%2017%201951.png" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>The image from the video is unfortunately blurred. In the background, behind Ms. Niles, are three of the <i>Hit Parade</i> dancers: Lenny Claret (in a light sport coat, seen clapping), Virginia Conwell (obscured by Ms. Niles), and Dusty McCaffrey. Members of the Hit Paraders, singing "MacNamara's Band," included Artie Malvin and Gene Lowell (on the elevated stage behind the dancers), singer Hubie Hendrie (obscured, on the floor in front of the elevated stage), and singers Rae Whitney and Geri Beitzel (standing with others on tables at the left side of the TV screen, but out of camera range in the above image).<br /></p><p>Fosse & Niles made appearances on a number of early television programs, such as <i>The Colgate Comedy Hour</i>, <i>The Fifty-Fourth Street Revue</i>, and <i>The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show</i>.</p><p>Mr. Fosse, of course, would later become a much-celebrated choreographer and director, for both Broadway and film. </p><p>(<i>Your Hit Parade</i> image, © Lost Gold Entertainment, Inc.)<br /></p>Andrew Lee Fieldinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251193818294226253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131561403979569100.post-89689233076375197322024-03-12T20:38:00.000-07:002024-03-12T22:04:15.721-07:00COVID-19<p>On March 11, 2020, four years ago yesterday, the World Health Organization declared that COVID-19 was a pandemic.</p><p>Two days later, the Trump administration declared the virus to be a national emergency.</p><p>On March 15th, shutdowns began in states across the country.</p><p>The first COVID death in the United States had been reported on February 29th.</p><p>Near the end of May, the number of deaths, in the country, passed 100,000. This, despite President Trump's <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2020/10/politics/covid-disappearing-trump-comment-tracker/">assurances</a> that the virus would soon "go away." The virus, he had said on April 3rd--three weeks after his administration announced the national emergency--"is going to go away. It is going away." On June 18th, he said that the virus "is dying out. The numbers are starting to get very good." In July, he said: "I’ll be right eventually. I will be right eventually. You know I said, ‘It’s going to disappear.’ I’ll say it again. It’s going to disappear, and I’ll be right." In August, he said that "it’s gonna be gone soon."<b> </b>He was wrong. By the end of 2020, there were more than 350,000 deaths.<br /></p><p>The death count reached 1 million, in the U.S., in May of 2022.</p><p>As of March 2, 2024--this from a March 11th ABC News story, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/4-year-anniversary-declaring-covid-pandemic-virus-numbers/story?id=107880309">online</a>--1.18 million Americans have died due to the virus. <br /></p><p>Various studies, though, have suggested that it is probable the number is in fact higher. </p><p>One study, as <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/21/us-covid-death-rate-testing-reporting">reported </a>last month by the British publication <i>The Guardian</i>, indicated that the actual number of COVID deaths, in America, "is likely at least 16% higher than the official tally." </p><p>From the February 21st <i>Guardian</i> story:</p><p class="dcr-4cudl2"><i>“...we find over the first 30
months of the pandemic that serious gaps remained in surveillance,” said
Andrew Stokes, associate professor of global health and sociology at
Boston University and one of the study’s authors.</i></p><p class="dcr-4cudl2"><i>“Even
though we got a lot better at testing for Covid, we were still missing a
lot of official Covid deaths” in the US, said Jennifer Dowd, professor
of demography and population health at University of Oxford, who was not
involved in this research.</i></p><p class="dcr-4cudl2">Yet the official numbers, when one looks back, remain staggering.</p><p class="dcr-4cudl2">In one week, during January of 2021, there were nearly 26,000 deaths in the U.S.--the highest weekly figure since the start of the pandemic.</p><p class="dcr-4cudl2">During one week, a year later--from January 30 to February 5, 2022, during the Omicron wave--there were more than 18,000 deaths.<br /></p><p class="dcr-4cudl2">And more recently: in the week ending this past <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/1500-americans-dying-covid-week/story?id=106237143">December 9th</a>, there were, in the U.S., more than 1600 deaths due to the virus--as opposed to 163 deaths, the same week, from the flu. </p><p class="dcr-4cudl2">The March 11, 2024 ABC story, referred to above, notes that during the week of March 2nd, there were 576 deaths. COVID deaths have, obviously, been reduced dramatically--yet 576 deaths in a single week is a figure which should not be ignored. I am guessing, though, that any number of Americans--perhaps in part from simple weariness, or perhaps, for some, from a certain sense of defiance--consider the virus to be a thing of the past. One also notes that there are, indeed, many in the country who, during the course of the pandemic, made strenuous efforts to minimize--or simply deny--the virus's deadly severity.<br /></p><p class="dcr-4cudl2"></p><p class="dcr-4cudl2">Nevertheless: the issue of memory, as regards COVID, is of great significance. A February <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/02/10/opinion/coronavirus-pandemic-memories-library-congress/">story</a> in <i>The Boston Globe</i> reported that the Library of Congress had begun an oral history project, "part of a congressional mandate to preserve the experiences ordinary Americans had during the pandemic..."</p><p class="dcr-4cudl2">A year ago, in mid-March of 2023, as part of the weekly "Brooks and Capehart" segment on the <i>PBS</i> <i>NewsHour</i>, featuring journalists David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart, Mr. Brooks said the following, about the pandemic:</p><p class="dcr-4cudl2">"I don't think we've memorialized the million Americans who died, enough. President Biden, the day before the inauguration, remember he had that ceremony? And it seems like we should do that. We still need to do that more. And so there are a million households who lost somebody. And I think we still haven't quite faced the emotional leftovers of that." </p><p class="dcr-4cudl2">I think of the dedication page of a novel I read in 2022--writer Don Winslow's <i>City on Fire</i>, a work of crime fiction, published by William Morrow, which takes place for the most part in Providence, Rhode Island (a city, I'll mention, where I lived for a number of years, in the 1970s and 1980s). Mr. Winslow dedicated the book to those who had died from the virus:</p><p class="dcr-4cudl2"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghHoGLqGBGvcLxd05oArigIdXxQ5TqPeBc8r8GaiN-fR_loz2IEzRR5ZQiI9Jgr19MXOw3uJC7JesFHVNQ9JSmtp1ACfWj44OmvqAA5FbVSVn7QBueC9kH9s_5h4241g8OEfwV6e8_-zS3EJiFfnxTRPFxBu3tH9n8VOKsUz45WCjwCj225lXrIyeozO-f/s2486/Don%20Winslow%20dedication%20City%20of%20Fire.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2486" data-original-width="2322" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghHoGLqGBGvcLxd05oArigIdXxQ5TqPeBc8r8GaiN-fR_loz2IEzRR5ZQiI9Jgr19MXOw3uJC7JesFHVNQ9JSmtp1ACfWj44OmvqAA5FbVSVn7QBueC9kH9s_5h4241g8OEfwV6e8_-zS3EJiFfnxTRPFxBu3tH9n8VOKsUz45WCjwCj225lXrIyeozO-f/s320/Don%20Winslow%20dedication%20City%20of%20Fire.JPG" width="299" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p class="dcr-4cudl2"><br /><br /></p><p class="dcr-4cudl2"><br /></p><p class="dcr-4cudl2"></p><p class="dcr-4cudl2"></p><p class="dcr-4cudl2"></p><p class="dcr-4cudl2"></p><p class="dcr-4cudl2"></p><p class="dcr-4cudl2"></p><p class="dcr-4cudl2"><i></i></p><p class="dcr-4cudl2"><i><br /></i></p><p></p>Andrew Lee Fieldinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251193818294226253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131561403979569100.post-89381210262457296872024-03-03T22:00:00.000-08:002024-03-03T22:11:35.255-08:00Editorial Cartoon by Nick Anderson, about the House Speaker, and Ukraine<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>A cartoon from February 28th by Nick Anderson, whose work is syndicated by the Tribune Content Agency. Mr. Anderson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 2005. (Please click on the cartoon to see it enlarged.)<br /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCIL31nA65_r4mFuM5D_tn-tDsZQzbRf7SC4r0Z1gXUkX3G06CR6Fvie_Z2_kP-_eie8h3F_RP-Xr8V9Eol3QY-0ad2j6-r8sZ-NbCfghjeT3he7KWxQici46Uxa0xo8HQF_K39JB-U9qP6lWmQSDDWlnrXmDl-FekPJ7EXjGZJzn60XvftiJ0h7qKBP8F/s1015/Nick%20Anderson%20cartoon%20March%202024.webp" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="812" data-original-width="1015" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCIL31nA65_r4mFuM5D_tn-tDsZQzbRf7SC4r0Z1gXUkX3G06CR6Fvie_Z2_kP-_eie8h3F_RP-Xr8V9Eol3QY-0ad2j6-r8sZ-NbCfghjeT3he7KWxQici46Uxa0xo8HQF_K39JB-U9qP6lWmQSDDWlnrXmDl-FekPJ7EXjGZJzn60XvftiJ0h7qKBP8F/w400-h320/Nick%20Anderson%20cartoon%20March%202024.webp" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>(Cartoon © 2/28/24, by Nick Anderson and Counterpoint Media)</p>Andrew Lee Fieldinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251193818294226253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131561403979569100.post-66729584703958888972024-02-24T21:26:00.000-08:002024-02-25T17:38:30.736-08:00Aleksei Navalny, and Ukraine<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Today is the second anniversary of Russia's invasion of
Ukraine. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has also been eight days
since the death of Russian opposition figure Aleksei Navalny.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Today, too, Mr. Navalny's spokeswoman announced, in an online
statement, that Mr. Navalny's body had--finally--been released to the custody
of his mother.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yesterday, President Biden announced some 500 sanctions against
Russia, as a result of Mr. Navalny's death, and Russia's continuing war against
Ukraine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those sanctioned, <i>The Washington
Post </i>noted,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> included Russian individuals, companies, "and firms in other countries that supply Russia's military and
industrial production, according to a Treasury Department spokeswoman." <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said there will
also be sanctions concerning Russia's human rights abuses, within the country,
and without. One hopes the sanctions will have an effect.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And yet:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in the
United States, the Republican-led House continues to delay--recklessly--sending
crucial aid to Ukraine. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Gamesmanship is not leadership. Fealty to Donald Trump--who is besotted with Putin--is not leadership. The stakes, concerning Ukraine, are incalculably high,
worldwide, and many in the House GOP don't seem to care.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The world--teetering on its axis, while House Republicans are dormant. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Putin is strengthened by this; America's moral leadership is
deeply diminished. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And, to speak of Mr. Navalny:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>he was an immensely brave man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The day before his February 16th death, he made a court
appearance, video from which has aired on television, and can be seen online.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the courtroom--or, in the enclosure within the courtroom--he was smiling,
laughing, making jokes to the judge. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The judge had imposed "a stream of fines" against
Mr. Navalny, an online Russia-oriented independent news site noted (a site
blocked in Russia; the <a href="https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/02/16/alexei-navalnys-last-weeks-in-an-arctic-prison-a84120">publication</a> is now based outside of the country).
Mr. Navalny said the following, at the court hearing (I am using the translation not from the above publication, but from the CBS News video, below):</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">"Your honor, I am waiting. I will send you my personal account number,
so that you can use your huge federal judge's salary to fuel my personal account."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He added: "Because I am
running out of money, and thanks to your decisions, it will run out even faster.
So send it over." </p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUwOYeei5MU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUwOYeei5MU</a></p><p class="MsoNormal">Mr. Navalny's cheerful-appearing demeanor, the day before he
died, was, on its own, evidence of his tremendous fortitude, and his heroism. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He had not, his manner proclaimed, been defeated--either
from the terrible (and freezing) conditions of the Russian Arctic penal colony to
which he had been sent in December, or from the punishing circumstances at the prison
where he had been previously held since 2021. During his imprisonment, he spent hundreds
of days in solitary confinement.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mr. Navalny's death--whether due to the harsh conditions of
his incarceration (conditions imposed, certainly, by Vladimir Putin), or because of a Putin-ordered assassination--is a tragedy of great magnitude: for
the citizens of Russia, for his many supporters, and, of course, for Mr.
Navalny's courageous family. It is also a considerable tragedy for those seeking
freedom across the world.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On February 16th, the day his death was reported, Anne
Applebaum wrote the following in <i>The</i> <i>Atlantic</i>, online:</p>
<p class="articleparagraphroot4mszw"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">The enormous contrast between Navalny’s civic courage and the
corruption of Putin’s regime will remain. Putin is fighting a bloody, lawless,
unnecessary war, in which hundreds of thousands of ordinary Russians have been
killed or wounded, for no reason other than to serve his own egotistical
vision. He is running a cowardly, micromanaged reelection campaign, one in
which all real opponents are eliminated and the only candidate who gets airtime
is himself. Instead of facing real questions or challenges, he meets tame
propagandists such as Tucker Carlson, to whom he offers nothing more than
lengthy, circular, and completely false versions of history.</span></i></span></p>
<p class="articleparagraphroot4mszw" data-flatplan-paragraph="true"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Even behind bars Navalny was a
real threat to Putin, because he was living proof that courage is possible,
that truth exists, that Russia could be a different kind of country. For a
dictator who survives thanks to lies and violence, that kind of challenge was
intolerable. Now Putin will be forced to fight against Navalny’s memory, and
that is a battle he will never win.</span></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/navalny-death-russia-prison/677485/?gift=Tcay7nmVziC9n3Jf9QllmzHT97CTYmgyJxhyNuNZ0fM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share">https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/navalny-death-russia-prison/677485/?gift=Tcay7nmVziC9n3Jf9QllmzHT97CTYmgyJxhyNuNZ0fM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share</a></p>
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</p><p class="css-1tx0lhj"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On February 20th,
Nadya Tolokonnikova--</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">one of the founders of the Russian music/protest/performance art
group Pussy Riot, and who was a friend of Mr. Navalny's--</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">published an op-ed essay in <i>The New York Times. </i>She wrote the
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>People say Mr. Putin feared Aleksei. But I think the reason
he wanted to get rid of Aleksei was another emotion — a darker, more sinister
one. It was envy. People loved Aleksei. With his jokes, irony, superhero-like
fearlessness and love for life, he led with charisma. People followed Aleksei
because he was the kind of person you wanted to be friends with. People follow
Mr. Putin because they fear him, but people followed Aleksei because they loved
him. Mr. Putin clearly envied this appeal. No amount of money in the world can
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/20/opinion/navalny-death-putin.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YE0.37GO.CriK-ATjG56m&smid=url-share">https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/20/opinion/navalny-death-putin.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YE0.37GO.CriK-ATjG56m&smid=url-share</a></p>
Andrew Lee Fieldinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251193818294226253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131561403979569100.post-6674036930513169092024-02-15T17:03:00.000-08:002024-02-15T17:03:06.173-08:00Sentences<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">From Ann Beattie's fine book of short stories, <i>Onlookers </i>(published last July): <span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">Here are two sentences--from a story titled "Alice Ott";
the story is narrated by Alice Ott's niece.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">My boyfriend back in Michigan had
found me <i>withholding</i>. That was
because sometimes I didn't talk just about him.</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Onlookers-Stories-Ann-Beattie/dp/1668013657/">https://www.amazon.com/Onlookers-Stories-Ann-Beattie/dp/1668013657/</a></span></span> <br /></p>Andrew Lee Fieldinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251193818294226253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131561403979569100.post-68551592426142234172024-02-10T20:03:00.000-08:002024-02-12T15:10:45.866-08:00The great Ringo Starr, and the Beatles<p>I'm obviously writing about the following belatedly--but Ringo Starr was featured on the cover of (and was interviewed for) the December/January issue of AARP's bi-monthly magazine. </p><p>The interview, with writer Rob Tannenbaum, concluded with these surprising (and fascinating) comments by Mr. Starr:</p><p><i>I was 22 when I joined the Beatles in 1962, and I was 30 when it was all
over. We did eight years, and look at how much we packed in. We loved
to work — well, Paul loved to work more than all of us. John and I would
be hanging out in the garden and the phone would ring. We were psychic —
we knew it was him. “Hey, lads, should we go into the studio?”
Otherwise, we’d have put out three albums and then vanished.</i></p><p>Perhaps Mr. Starr was exaggerating, a bit, for effect--that,<i> </i>without the prodding of Paul McCartney, the Beatles may only have released three albums. Yet even allowing for possible hyperbole, his comment is still noteworthy: that it was Mr. McCartney who was the driving force behind bringing the group, again and again, into the recording studio.</p><p>Yet one must also focus on these words, in the above remarks: "We loved to work." One of the great pleasures in watching the Beatles--in videos, in television performances, in films of their concerts, and in their feature films--is to see a group that always seemed to enjoy performing<i>. </i>They looked, so often, like they were having a good time.<i></i></p><p>Author Mark Lewisohn, in his book <i>Tune In</i>, subtitled <i>The Beatles: All These Years, Volume 1 </i>(Three Rivers Press, 2013), quotes Roberta "Bobby" Brown, a young woman who was a devoted Beatles fan, during their Cavern Club period in Liverpool, and beyond. She attended the group's shows when Pete Best was the drummer, and remembered when Ringo Starr took Mr. Best's place in 1962. She said: "I really liked Ringo from day one...As soon as he got up there I thought he was great. He was full of personality. He wasn't this moody James Dean-like person at the back. Pete never smiled and Ringo <i>always</i> smiled."</p><p>Ringo did indeed have an appealing personality, during his years with the group (as he still does, today, at age 83). He was also a terrific drummer. </p><p>The group's February 9, 1964 appearance on the Ed Sullivan program--sixty years ago, yesterday--remains,
for me, a thrilling childhood memory. The performances, that night--the
group sang five songs, in two separate segments--were tremendous. They also appeared on the program the following two weeks.<br /></p>The group's final performance, for the first Ed Sullivan appearance, was of "I Want To Hold Your Hand" (see link below), which was, at the time, the number one song in America. (The group's manager, Brian Epstein, had decided he would only let the group appear in the United States once they had achieved a number-one hit there.)<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jenWdylTtzs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jenWdylTtzs</a></p><p>One of the most interesting parts of the above video, I think, takes place at approximately :50 from the video's start. </p><p>At that time, a camera--described on a Beatles-related website as a "mobile crane camera"--moves above and beyond George Harrison and John Lennon, to focus on Ringo Starr. What is intriguing, about these moments, is that the closer the camera gets to Mr. Starr, the louder his drumming becomes. It seems as though there was a microphone attached to the camera; I never knew there could be this pairing, of camera and microphone. As the camera then recedes, the volume of the drumming diminishes. (Though maybe I am misunderstanding this; perhaps, say, there was a boom microphone above, and its volume was for some reason raised, and subsequently lowered, as the camera first moved closer, and was then pulled back.) <br /></p><p>(One also notes this, about the video: as many Beatles fans are aware, there was an issue with John Lennon's microphone during the February 9th telecast; the volume was too low. Yet the performances nonetheless remained superb--including that of "I Want to Hold Your Hand.") </p>Here, too, is a video (flawed, unfortunately) of the group's performance, that night, of "Till There Was You." The video--which has been colorized--is of poor quality, yet the audio is fine. The performance includes a beautiful vocal by Paul McCartney, and lovely guitar playing by George Harrison. It is during this song, famously, that each Beatle was identified, on the screen--including this wording about John Lennon: "SORRY GIRLS, HE'S MARRIED."<br /><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYBjJwj9pcg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYBjJwj9pcg</a></p><p>(One notes that there was an homage to the on-screen identifications of the group, in the 1996 film <i>That Thing You Do</i>, directed and written by Tom Hanks. The film was about a 1960s one-hit American group (called The Wonders), and the scene, in the following YouTube video, is of a television appearance the fictional group made. The homage to the February 9th Ed Sullivan program occurs at approximately 1 minute and 50 seconds into the video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XITR4xKz8k&list=RD3XITR4xKz8k&start_radio=1"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XITR4xKz8k&list=RD3XITR4xKz8k&start_radio=1</a> )<br /></p><p>In the earlier part of their recording career, the Beatles covered songs by a number of artists. These included Smokey Robinson and The Miracles ("You've Really Got a Hold on Me"), Little Richard ("Long Tall Sally"), The Shirelles ("Baby It's You"), Chuck Berry ("Roll Over Beethoven"), Arthur Alexander's "Anna (Go to Him)," and Buddy Holly ("Words of Love").</p><p>The Beatles' cover version of "Till There was You," performed on Ed Sullivan's program, was, I think, a very interesting (and appealing) song choice, indicative of the breadth of the group's (or, at least, Paul McCartney's) musical interests. The song was written by Meredith Willson, and was featured in his 1957 Broadway play <i>The Music Man</i>, as well as in the subsequent 1962 film.</p><p>It has been written, though, that Mr. McCartney originally learned of the song not from <i>The Music Man</i>, but from a cover recording of it by Peggy Lee. Wikipedia notes that the song was a "minor hit" in the United Kingdom, for Ms. Lee, in early 1961, and also notes that Mr. McCartney was given the Peggy Lee record by a cousin of his. Author Mark Lewisohn, referred to above, writes that "John <i>really</i> had a go at Paul for singing [the song]--but didn't try to stop him doing it, recognizing there was scope for all kinds of music in this group, to please all kinds of audiences...just so long as no one went near jazz."<br /></p><p>Lastly, here are some additional comments about Ringo Starr's drumming. As suggested above, I am a great admirer of Mr. Starr's drumming skills.</p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p>In his book <i>Tell Me Why</i>, subtitled <i>The Beatles: Album by Album,
Song by Song, The Sixties and After</i> (Knopf, 1988), writer Tim Riley quoted from the book <i>All
You Need is Ears </i>(St. Martin's Press, 1979), by George Martin, the Beatles'
producer. Mr. Martin wrote that Mr. Starr was "not a
'technical' drummer. Men like Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa would run rings round him. But he's a good solid rock drummer with a super steady beat, and he
knows how to get the right sound out of his drums. Above all, he
does have an individual sound. You can tell Ringo's drums from anyone
else's..." </p>
<p>Wrote author Riley: "When Martin says 'he knew how to get the
right sound out of his drums,' he means in part that Ringo wanted to serve the
songs rather than show off...His commitment to the music was always bigger than his ego."</p>
<p>In his book, Mr. Riley wrote, for example, of the 1965 song "I'm
Down," which was the B-side of the 45 record "Help." The song,
Mr. Riley wrote, was "Paul's first straightforward original rocker
since 'I Saw Her Standing There'," and he wrote that the recording was a
"rock 'n' roll classic." It's a rather wild and enjoyably frenetic
song. Near its conclusion, wrote Mr. Riley, "the band veers breathlessly
close to the edge of hysteria, and it's to Ringo's credit that things don't
fall apart. The hardest assignment for any drummer is to let the others
cut loose to the extreme while providing a steady beat for them to fall back
on. Lesser bands would easily come unglued with a groove so addled and
punctured; Ringo maintains a sure but unconfining backbeat for the
madness, the strongest glue of all."</p><p>Here is a remastered recording of "I'm Down," from YouTube:</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOWrScjXMRE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOWrScjXMRE</a><br /></p>
<p>Mr. Riley wrote this, as well, of the 1965 song "Day Tripper":
"As the end [of the song] approaches, Ringo takes over with fills, and he
defines the final moments...The drumming he has been slinging into the sound at
every entrance is like small pelts of compressed tension and release, and it's
difficult to imagine the track without it. But the final drum spot
condenses his other fills into a solo of imaginative breaks: triplets here,
tom-tom rolls there, filling up each opportunity with rhythmic commentary on
the riff that has driven the entire song. Even Paul's hidden bass ad-libs
[heard in the left channel of the recording] don't match Ringo's ingenuity.
His timing shows just what attentive drumming a track like this requires, and
it is among Ringo's finest moments."</p><p>Here is a video--not a live performance, but a video nonetheless--of "Day Tripper":</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYZlME0mQB8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYZlME0mQB8</a></p><p><i><b><span style="font-size: small;">(Please note: The above piece was lightly edited, in the hours after it was posted.)</span></b></i><br /></p>Andrew Lee Fieldinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251193818294226253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131561403979569100.post-86947505616574115492024-02-05T20:32:00.000-08:002024-02-05T20:55:34.226-08:00Trump, and the 2024 election<p>It is not only profoundly alarming, the possibility that Trump could be returned to office, in November.</p><p>It is also alarming, in the extreme, to think of what he might do--to think of what lengths he might go to--if he loses again.</p>Andrew Lee Fieldinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251193818294226253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131561403979569100.post-43022703475344284042024-01-15T19:45:00.000-08:002024-01-15T19:45:55.803-08:00Martin Luther King, Jr., and the calendar<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal">I think, with some regularity, about the prominence of dates, in our
lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">During a given year, so many dates stand out--dates with personal,
or historical, meaning (and historical dates often feel deeply personal).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There is the date of our own birth; the birth dates of loved
ones; wedding anniversaries; the dates when loved ones died.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Today, the 15th of January, is of course the anniversary of
Dr. King's birth, in 1929.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today, had he
lived, he would have been 95 years old.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I think of the tremendous burden Dr. King faced, through his
years as a public figure: his awareness, ever-present, of the possibility of assassination. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Which, in the end, happened, on April 4th of 1968--when he
was shot while standing on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It is astonishing (and deeply saddening) to remember that
Dr. King--one of the most towering figures in America's history--was only 39, at
his death. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There are, certainly, many other dates of great
significance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">One thinks of November 22nd. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>September 11th. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>December 7, 1941.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D-Day, on June 6, 1944.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The death, on June 6, 1968--two months after
Dr. King's death--of Senator Kennedy.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">February 9, 1964 (sixty years ago next month)--when The
Beatles first appeared on Ed Sullivan's program.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">August 8th, 1974: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>President Nixon's announcement, in a
television speech, that he would resign from office the next day.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then, dates which are more recent:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">January 6, 2021, at the Capitol.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am unsure how many people remember, specifically, February
24, 2022 as being the date Russia began its war against Ukraine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I suspect millions of people--beyond the area
of Ukraine itself--likely do remember it, and one hopes the date will continue
to be kept in mind.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And three months ago: October 7th, when Hamas committed its invasion
of Israel--which led, quickly, to the Israel-Hamas war. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In addition to today's anniversary of Dr. King's birth, there is today another anniversary--the date of which I had not recalled,
until watching a recent CNN special.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fifteen
years ago--January 15th, 2009--the "Miracle on the Hudson"
occurred, when Captain Sullenberger landed US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson
River.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone on board--155
people--survived.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Years after the fact--or only weeks, months after the fact--we
feel, often with great emotion, the effect and meaning of certain dates. Our
awareness of such dates gives to us (in an evocative, associative way), an ongoing sense of our personal
histories--and of national history, world history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An awareness of the calendar (and all
of its particular associations, from both the distant and recent past) becomes, indeed,
a significant part of our lives.</p>
Andrew Lee Fieldinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251193818294226253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131561403979569100.post-1888200696582615352024-01-05T14:30:00.000-08:002024-01-19T20:38:11.194-08:00An extraordinary role in D-Day<p>On Tuesday, <i>The New York Times</i> published an obituary of Maureen Flavin Sweeney, who died on December 17th at a nursing home in Belmullet, Ireland. She was 100 years old.</p><p>I had not known of Ms. Sweeney, or of the remarkable role she played during World War Two.</p><p>In 1942, as the<i> Times</i> reported, she took a job at the post office of Blacksod Point, an Irish coastal village. Her name, at the time--she was not yet married--was Maureen Flavin.<br /></p><p>The <i>Times</i> wrote that the "remote post office also served as a weather station. Her duties included recording and transmitting weather data. She did that work diligently, though she did not even know where her weather reports were going.</p><p>"In fact," <i>Times</i> reporter Alex Traub noted, "they were part of the Allied war effort."</p><p>Then, in June of 1944, days before the D-Day invasion--originally planned for June 5th--her weather data altered history. "On her 21st birthday, June 3, she had a late-night shift: 12 a.m. to 4
a.m. Checking her barometer, she saw that it registered a rapid drop in
pressure, indicating a likelihood of approaching rain or stormy weather."</p><p>The <i>Times </i>story continued: <br /></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><i>The report went from Dublin to Dunstable, the town that housed England’s meteorological headquarters.</i></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><i>Ms.
Flavin then received an unusual series of calls about her work. A woman
with an English accent asked her: “Please check. Please repeat!”</i></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><i>Ms. Flavin asked the postmistress’s son and Blacksod’s lighthouse keeper, Ted Sweeney </i>[whom she would marry in 1946],<i> if she was making a mistake.</i></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><i>“We
checked and rechecked, and the figures were the same both times, so we
were happy enough,” she later told Ireland’s Eye magazine.</i></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">The <i>Times </i>wrote: <i><br /></i></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><i>That
same day, [General] Eisenhower and his advisers were meeting at their base in
England. James Stagg, a British military meteorologist, reported that,
based on Ms. Flavin’s readings, bad weather was expected. He advised
Eisenhower to postpone the invasion by a day.</i></p><aside aria-label="companion column" class="css-ew4tgv"></aside><div><div class="css-8atqhb"></div></div><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"></p><aside aria-label="companion column" class="css-ew4tgv"></aside><div><div class="css-8atqhb"></div></div><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><i>The
general agreed. June 5 saw rough seas, high winds and thick cloud
cover.</i> </p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">D-Day took place on June 6th. "Some commentators," <i>Times </i>reporter Traub wrote, "...have argued that the invasion could well have failed if it had occurred [on June 5th]."</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">The obituary notes that Ms. Sweeney only learned of the importance of her weather reporting years later, in 1956.<br /></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Here is the link to the June 2nd story about her, from the <i>Times</i>: <br /></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/02/world/europe/maureen-sweeney-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.K00.0hPk.RIrpOUcYte3D&smid=url-share">https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/02/world/europe/maureen-sweeney-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.K00.0hPk.RIrpOUcYte3D&smid=url-share</a><br /></p></div><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"></p></div><p></p>Andrew Lee Fieldinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251193818294226253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131561403979569100.post-88514619042468964462023-12-27T21:49:00.000-08:002023-12-27T21:52:51.290-08:00News Anchor Tom Foty, CBS Radio<p>For years I listened, with pleasure, to Tom Foty's assured and appealing news anchoring, on CBS Radio.<br /></p><p>Mr. Foty died on December 26th, at 77. He was last heard on the network December 21st.</p><p>His distinctive voice can be heard in the story, below, from Washington's WTOP Radio.</p><p><a href="https://wtop.com/local/2023/12/longtime-cbs-anchor-tom-foty-dies-at-77/">https://wtop.com/local/2023/12/longtime-cbs-anchor-tom-foty-dies-at-77/</a><br /></p>Andrew Lee Fieldinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251193818294226253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131561403979569100.post-50901803912567217112023-12-08T16:22:00.000-08:002023-12-08T17:21:07.293-08:00Typewriters, at auction<p>As one who has come to miss his long-gone manual typewriters (and an IBM Selectric, sold, as I recall, in 2000), I was interested to read this December 7th story from <i>The New York Times</i>:</p><p>The story concerns an auction, taking place December 15th in Dallas, run by the company Heritage Auctions. It is a collection of 33 typewriters, owned by entrepreneur and civic leader (and a former president of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners) Steve Soboroff. The collection includes typewriters once owned by Ernest Hemingway, Shirley Temple, Andy Rooney, Philip Roth, Jack London, Truman Capote, Greta Garbo, and Tennessee Williams. <br /></p><p>In 2022 Mr. Soboroff donated six typewriters from his collection to the Smithsonian: typewriters of Joe DiMaggio, Maya Angelou, Elia Kazan, Orson Welles, Jerry Siegel (the co-creator of Superman), and John Lennon (who, one notes, died 43 years ago today).</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/07/style/ernest-hemingway-typewriter-auction.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/07/style/ernest-hemingway-typewriter-auction.ht</a></p><p>Mr. Soboroff assembled much of his collection through auction purchases; some were bought from family members or friends of those who had owned the typewriters. The <i>Times </i>article includes the following:<br /></p><p><i>Typewriters are
imperfect little engraving machines, Mr. Soboroff likes to say,
requiring more physical interaction than today’s laptops. Some exude a
personality, a mechanical soul, like a vintage car or a maestro’s
violin. The connection to their original owners adds to the mystique.</i></p><p><i>“They
are really hard to find because some heirs don’t want to give them up,”
Mr. Soboroff said. “They’ll sell the clothes, pictures. They won’t sell
the typewriter.”</i></p><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Here is a link to a press release about Mr. Soboroff's collection, on the Heritage Auctions website: <i><br /></i></p></div><p><a href="https://www.ha.com/heritage-auctions-press-releases-and-news/-the-world-s-greatest-typewriter-collection-serves-as-centerpiece-of-heritage-s-dec.-15-historical-platinum-event.s?releaseId=4848">https://www.ha.com/heritage-auctions-press-releases-and-news/-the-world-s-greatest-typewriter-collection-serves-as-centerpiece-of-heritage-s-dec.-15-historical-platinum-event.s?releaseId=4848</a><br /></p>Andrew Lee Fieldinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251193818294226253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131561403979569100.post-51804641251138665102023-12-03T16:40:00.000-08:002023-12-03T16:55:55.860-08:00Sandra Day O'Connor<p>While having not (admittedly) been a great fan of Ronald Reagan and his presidency, I think Mr. Reagan deserves much credit for having nominated Sandra Day O'Connor--who died on Friday, at 93--to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. </p><p>The legacy of Justice O'Connor--the first woman to serve on the Court--is an honorable and admirable one.</p>Andrew Lee Fieldinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251193818294226253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131561403979569100.post-88154341520677648222023-11-28T22:42:00.000-08:002023-11-28T22:42:44.722-08:00Rosalynn Carter<p>Tuesday's memorial service for Rosalynn Carter--carried on television--was very moving.</p><p>Mrs. Carter was an extraordinary American--and an exceptional citizen of the world. She led a life of great service, and great purpose. </p>Andrew Lee Fieldinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251193818294226253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131561403979569100.post-70366646877214466282023-11-21T19:54:00.000-08:002023-11-21T21:39:08.569-08:00JFK<p>Tomorrow is--it feels startling to say this--the 60th anniversary of JFK's death.</p><p></p><p>Below is a photograph that my brother took the weekend of the assassination (though as the date at the top of the picture indicates, it was not developed until March of 1964). </p><p>The picture shows the screen of a black and white TV set our family had; the set was in a room off of our dining room. The image is of the President's casket, on Sunday, November 24th--I believe just after it had been placed on the bier, by the military service members who had carried the casket into the Rotunda of the Capitol building. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4FQV2OFuNFotC_tCtGlKjIQlX-xY0KsVkiQp1fCgv43xf8lOD_ujIzd78dR8pX6-7CHxDscwTpQm9X5q1FaSokuS7PEnXtqgQyoEXNVzvZGZloE2SVYHzDd4vDTmLbKYUFmOmFSofYoUgd_jECYaT0q37PUa8vqWm_KUIrYN_h-xvnePxjKSo2o4dpETU/s3445/JFK%20Rotunda%20photo%20from%20TV.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2299" data-original-width="3445" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4FQV2OFuNFotC_tCtGlKjIQlX-xY0KsVkiQp1fCgv43xf8lOD_ujIzd78dR8pX6-7CHxDscwTpQm9X5q1FaSokuS7PEnXtqgQyoEXNVzvZGZloE2SVYHzDd4vDTmLbKYUFmOmFSofYoUgd_jECYaT0q37PUa8vqWm_KUIrYN_h-xvnePxjKSo2o4dpETU/w400-h268/JFK%20Rotunda%20photo%20from%20TV.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>My brother was ten when he took the picture (I was seven). It looks to me as though two window shades in the room had been pulled down (though not entirely), one on each side of the TV set; my brother (who a handful of years later began what would become a photography career), evidently knew what to do to insure that the image would come out properly. Yet there is, nonetheless, a small imperfection at the near-center of the flag which covered the casket--a slight intrusion of white light, which perhaps came from another window in the room (there were several), or possibly from some unanticipated reflection.<p></p><p>There is, to me, an eeriness to the photograph--maybe, in part, due to the darkness surrounding the television screen (a darkness, one could say, befitting the tragedy which had occurred two days before). Yet the photograph--showing the TV image, and the accompanying darkness--conveys, I think, a grim sort of beauty.</p>Andrew Lee Fieldinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251193818294226253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131561403979569100.post-28089578985450915812023-11-13T22:38:00.000-08:002023-11-13T22:38:40.452-08:00From "The Atlantic"<p>The following link is to an excellent piece from the website of <i>The Atlantic</i>, by staff writer Tom Nichols, titled "The Juvenile Viciousness of Campus Anti-Semitism." Its subtitle is: "Some of America's students are embracing an ancient evil."</p><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/11/campus-anti-semitism-hamas-war/675991/">https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/11/campus-anti-semitism-hamas-war/675991/</a></p><p>Mr. Nichols writes, for example, that at George Washington University, </p><p><i>activists projected pro-Hamas slogans on the sides of buildings,
including “Free Palestine from the river to the sea,” a call for the
eradication of Israel. Spare me the sophistry—most recently plumped by <a data-event-element="inline link" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/13/us/politics/rashida-tlaib-palestine-israel.html">Representative Rashida Tlaib of Michigan</a>—that
“From the river to the sea” is merely an anodyne call for freedom and
equal rights, or that it somehow can be detached from Hamas’s genocidal
meaning... </i></p><p>Mr. Nichols writes:</p><p><i>Good for Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay, for denouncing this slogan (despite immediate <a data-event-element="inline link" href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/11/10/gay-antisemitism-education-email/">campus backlash</a>
for doing so); better late than never. Some protesters insist—and many
with undeniable honesty—that they are objecting only to Israeli policy.
But even the sincerest among them often resort to the backbreaking
mental gymnastics required to dismiss the obvious anti-Semitism that is
woven into so many of these protests.</i></p>Andrew Lee Fieldinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251193818294226253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131561403979569100.post-13647971665767293122023-10-25T17:13:00.001-07:002023-10-25T17:13:51.525-07:00A song<p>The link, below, is to a recording from January of 1950, by the Kay Kyser Orchestra. </p><p>The song, released on Columbia Records, is "Open Door, Open Arms." Its vocals are by Michael Douglas (known years later, when he hosted a television talk show, as Mike Douglas), and my mother, Sue Bennett. <br /></p><p>When "Open Door, Open Arms" was recorded, Mr. Douglas was twenty-nine years old. My mother was twenty-one. At the time, they were both singing on Kay Kyser's weekly television show, on NBC. <br /></p><p>Mr. Douglas sings for a little more than half of the recording; my mother then sings for the remainder of the song. </p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/78_open-door-open-arms_kay-kyser-and-his-orchestra-michael-douglas-and-sue-bennett-b_gbia0405499b">https://archive.org/details/78_open-door-open-arms_kay-kyser-and-his-orchestra-michael-douglas-and-sue-bennett-b_gbia0405499b</a></p><p>As I have noted previously, in this space, it was not uncommon, during this era, for popular songs to be recorded by multiple performers. Other versions of "Open Door, Open Arms" were, for example, released by The Andrews Sisters, with the Lee Gordon Singers (recorded in November 1949); by Jo Stafford and The Starlighters (recorded in December 1949); and by the country singer Cowboy Copas (recorded, as was the Kay Kyser version, in January of 1950).</p><p>Here is the Cowboy Copas recording of the song:</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSM5P_XSCWQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSM5P_XSCWQ</a><br /></p><p>In the above video, there are rotating (and repeating) still images; one of the images, of a newspaper's front page, concerns the death of Copas, in the crash of a small plane. The crash occurred in 1963, in a wooded area in Tennessee. All of those on the plane--Copas, singer Patsy Cline, singer Hawkshaw Hawkins, and pilot Randy Hughes--were killed. Randy Hughes was Patsy Cline's manager, and was Cowboy Copas's son-in-law.<br /></p>Andrew Lee Fieldinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251193818294226253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131561403979569100.post-47791240486127097912023-10-12T19:55:00.002-07:002023-10-12T21:09:00.842-07:00Hamas, on Osama bin Laden<p>Over the past days, contemplating Hamas's murderous, sadistic, gruesome attacks in Israel, I have thought of the group's reaction, in May of 2011, to the death of the mass murderer Osama bin Laden.</p><p>News reports at the time cited Ismail Haniyeh, who today is head of the Hamas Political Bureau; he has held this position since 2017.</p><p>One 2011 report said this: <br /></p><span></span><i><span>Ismail Haniyeh, head of the Hamas administration in the Gaza Strip,
told reporters that the group regards bin Laden's death "as a
continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding
of Muslim and Arab blood."</span></i><span>
<p><i>Though he noted doctrinal differences between bin Laden's al Qaeda
and Hamas, Haniyeh said: "We condemn the assassination and the killing
of an Arab holy warrior. We ask God to offer him mercy with the true
believers and the martyrs." </i></p><p><a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4063407,00.html">https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4063407,00.html</a></p></span>Andrew Lee Fieldinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251193818294226253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131561403979569100.post-73634466199598397222023-10-08T21:13:00.006-07:002023-10-09T13:32:13.317-07:00Solidarity with Israel<p>I've long been weary of hearing those who are imbued with a deep (and often obsessive) animus toward Israel--the hatred, for example, from conspiratorial sectors on the right (including neo-Nazis, and their like), and hatred from certain sectors on the left (often today, notably, coming from repugnant anti-Israel student groups on college campuses). I've been hearing versions of these anti-Israel voices, with profound dismay, for decades.<br /></p><p>And so, one must make note of one's support--one's wholehearted support--for the people of Israel, during this terrible and perilous time.<br /></p><p></p><p>On Saturday, one also must note, President Biden spoke (importantly, forcefully) in support of Israel's right of self-defense--following the thousands of rocket attacks, that day, from Hamas (and, evidently, from Islamic Jihad as well), and following the hundreds of murders (and the kidnappings) committed by Hamas gunmen during the group's invasion.</p><p>Mr. Biden said, in part:</p><p><i>Hamas terrorists crossing into Israel killing not only Israeli
soldiers, but Israeli civilians in the street, in their homes. Innocent
people murdered, wounded, entire families taken hostage by Hamas just
days after Israel marked the holiest of days on the Jewish calendar.
It’s unconscionable.</i></p>
<p><i>You know, when I spoke with Prime Minister Netanyahu this morning, I
told him the United States stands with the people of Israel in the face
of these terrorist assaults. Israel has the right to defend itself and
its people. Full stop.</i></p>
<p><i>There is never justification for terrorist attacks.</i></p>
<p><i>And my administration’s support for Israel’s security is rock solid and unwavering.</i></p>Andrew Lee Fieldinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251193818294226253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131561403979569100.post-72496067649559526312023-10-03T18:52:00.002-07:002023-10-03T18:54:49.239-07:00The Nobel Prize<p>I am hopeful that the supremely talented (and extremely courageous) writer Salman Rushdie might be given this year's Nobel Prize in Literature.</p><p>The prize will be awarded on Thursday.<br /></p>Andrew Lee Fieldinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251193818294226253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131561403979569100.post-40959972105436028992023-09-18T18:13:00.002-07:002023-09-19T07:15:13.481-07:00"60 Minutes," Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and Scott Pelley<p>On Sunday's premiere of the new season of CBS's <i>60 Minutes</i>, correspondent Scott Pelley spoke with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The interview (or, more precisely, interviews) took place in Ukraine, in advance of Mr. Zelenskyy's visit, this week, to the United States.</p><p>Mr. Zelenskyy remains a remarkable world figure. He is impressively determined, unusually smart, focused, eloquent, human.</p><p>Here is the link to the <i>60 Minutes</i> segment:</p><p><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/zelenskyy-putin-world-war-iii-ukraine-russia-60-minutes/">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/zelenskyy-putin-world-war-iii-ukraine-russia-60-minutes/</a></p><p>Scott Pelley, one notes, is one of the great reporters and interviewers in CBS News's distinguished history. His piece on Sunday about President Zelenskyy was in keeping with his longtime commitment to presenting meaningful, intelligent, superb journalism.</p>Andrew Lee Fieldinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251193818294226253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131561403979569100.post-24341372589792454952023-09-15T16:30:00.004-07:002023-09-15T16:55:12.347-07:00Rosh Hashanah<p>Happy New Year, and good wishes, to all who are observing the holiday...<br /></p>Andrew Lee Fieldinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251193818294226253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131561403979569100.post-18070231522295552012023-09-15T14:18:00.006-07:002023-09-15T14:36:10.246-07:00Remembering, suddenly<p>I think, routinely, about the subject of memory, and the ways memory affects our lives. </p><p>I think often about childhood-related memories, in particular early childhood memories--those which we remember with clarity, or those which are vague, elusive, perhaps mysterious to us in their elusiveness. </p><p>I'm also intrigued by memories which can suddenly reappear, after many decades, seemingly unbidden.</p><p>Such as: </p><p>I was at my desk, a few months ago, making a list of things I had to get, during errands later on. <br /></p><p>I stood up from the desk, and held the small piece of paper with the list on it. I remembered something I wanted to add to the list. I took a pen from the desk, and began jotting down the added item--holding the paper not against the desk, but in the palm of my hand.</p><p>From this insignificant gesture--from the motion of the pen bearing down on the paper in my palm--a memory, somewhat echo-like, came forth (something I am sure I had not thought of for decades). <br /></p><p>It was a memory of my maternal grandfather--a man I loved dearly--who died in 1970. He was seventy-five, when he died. I was fourteen.</p><p>I remembered how my grandfather often did the same thing: made notes to himself, while standing up, holding a piece of paper in his hand. I remembered watching him jot things down that he wanted to remember, things he had to do. </p><p>More than fifty years after his death, it startled me, and moved me greatly, to recall (in an instant) this detail about him, a memory that had been lost to me for decades--revealed simply by the way one was standing, holding a pen, and writing a word or two on a slip of paper. <br /></p>Andrew Lee Fieldinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251193818294226253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131561403979569100.post-22243994543742860932023-09-11T11:11:00.001-07:002023-09-11T11:11:23.048-07:00September 11th<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWcki9D492UzjiZv_2a4e1LPwc9p3h55UNHj_ZuQun6xJOpKIRoi-qXCd6DqiUf-3Z60bCoO_6ttRaR2Nz_2btyDtWuOsfDO1Dwc9FjTvGxN4Y8OcZOS4fazp3zW6_njPM2CoHij2KzaNMudwqYfxBGJ4qIC86-XjBgBFK5HvkYofXPUK_eEhz2654gbQU/s320/World%20Trade%20Center%20Jenny%20Lynn%20Photo%20Circa%201978.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="314" data-original-width="320" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWcki9D492UzjiZv_2a4e1LPwc9p3h55UNHj_ZuQun6xJOpKIRoi-qXCd6DqiUf-3Z60bCoO_6ttRaR2Nz_2btyDtWuOsfDO1Dwc9FjTvGxN4Y8OcZOS4fazp3zW6_njPM2CoHij2KzaNMudwqYfxBGJ4qIC86-XjBgBFK5HvkYofXPUK_eEhz2654gbQU/s1600/World%20Trade%20Center%20Jenny%20Lynn%20Photo%20Circa%201978.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">(Photograph <span style="line-height: 115%;">©</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> Jenny Lynn, circa 1978)</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></p>Andrew Lee Fieldinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251193818294226253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131561403979569100.post-57669434286574700862023-08-21T19:21:00.007-07:002023-08-31T20:56:03.667-07:00"Trash or Treasure," the DuMont Network, 1952<p>I've had the photograph, below, for a while. It is from November of 1952, and is of a weekly program on the DuMont Television Network, <i>Trash or Treasure.</i></p><p>The program, an early-TV precursor to <i>Antiques Roadshow</i> (which began airing on PBS in 1997), featured appraiser Sigmund Rothschild.</p><p>Mr. Rothschild's appraisals had previously--in 1948 and 1949--been the focus of another show, on CBS-TV, called <i>What's it Worth</i>. (The show's host, during that time, was Gil Fates. Fates would later produce CBS's <i>What's My Line?, </i>beginning with its debut in 1950; he produced the show until its network run ended in 1967--and then produced, for a number of years, the syndicated versions which followed.)<br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3CUCF1LaSNySJPUhj57dGyEA3hQOJes8K9fKW_aSAaw-5up0mbDpZSsdwsy2GktYT_XSMsC73tzrm9dvoCWxjcwvDOFm9xipL2pMbpmYjnApqHWiQXM_q7oEkzdQELaoYyq8xyORu41wI-nbWRv5l3rJzfoPCzt2LsQRKNVknXJuYqrqAEIYT5T8Wq4sV/s3537/Dumont%20Network%20Trash%20or%20Treasure%201952.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2762" data-original-width="3537" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3CUCF1LaSNySJPUhj57dGyEA3hQOJes8K9fKW_aSAaw-5up0mbDpZSsdwsy2GktYT_XSMsC73tzrm9dvoCWxjcwvDOFm9xipL2pMbpmYjnApqHWiQXM_q7oEkzdQELaoYyq8xyORu41wI-nbWRv5l3rJzfoPCzt2LsQRKNVknXJuYqrqAEIYT5T8Wq4sV/w320-h250/Dumont%20Network%20Trash%20or%20Treasure%201952.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p> </p><p>Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, in their <i>Complete Directory to Prime Time</i> <i>Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946--Present </i>(Ballantine Books, multiple editions), note that after <i>What's it Worth</i>, Mr. Rothschild was--from 1950 to 1952--a periodic guest on Kate Smith's daytime television show on NBC; his segments on Ms. Smith's show were called "Trash or Treasure." <br /></p><p>Mr. Rothschild then brought his program--now also called <i>Trash or Treasure--</i>to the DuMont Network in October of 1952. </p><p>To the left of the above photograph is the show's announcer/host, broadcast veteran Nelson Case. He had for years been a network radio announcer (for such programs as <i>The Lanny Ross Show</i>, <i>The</i> <i>Lowell Thomas Show</i>, <i>The Carnation Contented Hour</i>, the <i>NBC Symphony Orchestra </i>program, and <i>The</i> <i>Vaughn Monroe</i> <i>Show</i>), and then began working in television. I don't know the identity of the man standing between Mr. Case and Mr. Rothschild in the photograph. Perhaps he was the owner of the item being handled by Mr. Rothschild<b>--</b>an item I am assuming was in some way related to, or possibly a part of, the lock mechanism at the front of the table (a lock, as indicated in the handwritten notes on the back of the photo, manufactured by the Yale & Towne Company).<br /></p><p>Nelson Case appeared on <i>Trash or Treasure</i> from its DuMont debut in 1952 until March of 1953. When he left the show, his position was taken over by Bill Wendell. </p><p>The program (the title of which was changed, the month after Mr. Case's departure, to <i>Treasure Hunt</i>) aired until October of that year. </p><p>In 1952 and 1953, one also notes, Bill Wendell was the host of another DuMont program, <i>Stage a Number</i>. As Mr. Brooks and Mr. Marsh write, in their television encyclopedia: "This was one of many low-budget talent shows on TV during the early years. The acts presented [on the program] were young professionals, or aspiring professionals, who were introduced by a 'sponsor' and then 'staged their number' before a panel of show-business judges (producers, actors, etc.)." Mr. Brooks and Mr. Marsh write: "The acts tended to be theatrical, such as dramatic acting or ballet, with several appearances by the Nina Youshkevitch Ballet Workshop, among others."</p><p>In the mid-1950s, Mr. Wendell was the announcer for (and participated in sketches on) a morning TV show starring Ernie Kovacs, which aired on NBC. He was also part of another Ernie Kovacs program--the summer replacement, in 1956, for Sid Caesar's NBC show<i> Caesar's Hour</i>. Mr. Wendell became well-known, through the years, for the various game shows on which he served as announcer. He was also the announcer for the full run of David Letterman's late-night show on NBC (on which he occasionally also appeared in sketches), and remained with the program, for a couple of years, after the show moved to CBS.<br /></p><p>(Above photograph: Nelson Case, at left; unidentified man, at center; Sigmund Rothschild, at right.) </p><p><i><b>(Update, 8/31/23: The Ernie Kovacs mid-1950s morning television show, referred to above, was not, as I had understood it, a local New York show; it was, in fact, a network program, on NBC. The post has been corrected.) </b></i><br /></p>Andrew Lee Fieldinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251193818294226253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131561403979569100.post-44128918682671296132023-08-19T20:05:00.002-07:002023-08-20T10:18:16.517-07:00Raymond Chandler, in "Double Indemnity"<p>A favorite film has long been 1944's <i>Double Indemnity</i>, directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, and Edward G. Robinson. </p><p>The movie's script was written by Mr. Wilder and the novelist Raymond Chandler, and was based on the novel of the same name by James M. Cain.</p><p>I've seen <i>Double Indemnity</i> a number of times, yet never knew, until just recently, that Raymond Chandler appears in the film. <br /></p><p>Mr. Chandler is seen in the movie for only a few seconds. He is seated outside the office of Barton Keyes, the insurance investigator played by Mr. Robinson. Walter Neff (Mr. MacMurray) sells policies for the same insurance agency, and leaves Keyes's office. Mr. Chandler is in a chair, holding a cigarette and reading a book, or perhaps a magazine. He looks up as Walter Neff passes by. </p><p>Here is the scene, from YouTube: <br /></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN9THMXxndw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN9THMXxndw</a><br /></p>Andrew Lee Fieldinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09251193818294226253noreply@blogger.com