“A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done.”
Fred Allen, letter to William McChesney Martin, Jr., January 25, 1940
Archives for December 2021
Snapshot: Edward R. Murrow interviews Gene Kelly
Gene Kelly is interviewed by Edward R. Murrow on Person to Person. This episode was telecast live by CBS on December 19, 1958:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
Almanac: Richard Powell on women and ethics
“‘Women have no ethics,’ Mrs. Wharton said. ‘That’s the sort of excess baggage only men like to carry.’”
Richard Powell, The Philadelphian