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NOTEBOOK/MILESTONES | MARCH 16, 1998 VOL. 151 NO. 10 |
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Milestones
HONORED. HUGH THOMPSON, LAWRENCE COLBURN and GLENN ANDREOTTA, who 30 years ago halted the My Lai massacre by turning their weapons on fellow U.S. soldiers; in Washington. Andreotta was killed in battle three weeks later. DIVORCED. MARIAH CAREY, 27, chart-topping singer-songwriter; from Sony Music Entertainment chief TOMMY MOTTOLA, 49; after five years of marriage and a 10-month separation. Carey recorded her biggest hits for Sony labels. DIED. ALBERT LIPPERT, 72, diet-business fat cat who, as a founder of Weight Watchers, turned a flair for business and an expanding girth into a menu for success; in South Africa. While dieting in 1963, Lippert decided to market his regimen, ultimately spawning national franchises, a frozen-food line, and a new obsession with the scale. DIED. FRED FRIENDLY, 82, broadcasting pioneer and former president of CBS News whose early documentary work set the standard for journalistic integrity; in New York. Friendly quit CBS when the network ran a repeat of I Love Lucy while NBC broadcast a live Senate hearing on Vietnam. (See EULOGY below.) DIED. HENRY STEELE COMMAGER, 95, pre-eminent chronicler of American history and ardent defender of the Constitution upon which the country was founded; in Amherst, Mass. For close to 70 years, Commager's essays, books and meditations probed the nation's politics and psyche. A teacher for 65 years, Commager wrote books that served as lucid primers for generations of students. An early and vocal opponent of Senator Joseph McCarthy, Commager embraced the Jeffersonian view that given adequate information, Americans would ultimately use common sense to make informed decisions. Eulogy
The most compelling word pictures Friendly drew captured his World War II time in the Pacific ("If you've ever been in the jungle at night, you know that when a howitzer screams, the jungle screams back.") Perhaps he learned to draw like that from listening to the pictures his sidekick Murrow broadcast from London. It's an art that, with limited exceptions, has disappeared with Friendly. Like all men of talent, he wasn't always the most reasonable of men; sometimes you had trouble figuring out just what in hell he wanted you to do. But the sure sign of what he didn't want you to do was embodied in a cartoon in his office, showing a man and a scantily clad woman on a desert island. She is saying "Who'd know? I'd know!" --Don Hewitt, executive producer, 60 Minutes |
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red Friendly was the star we all
steered by. Not only was he a superb editor, he was a writer of uncommon
talent who taught us that, with rare exceptions, when television journalism
is good, the pictures take second place to the words. Nothing illustrated
his love of words more than his and Ed Murrow's I Can Hear It Now record
albums. There were no pictures, but if you closed your eyes and listened,
you could see the pictures--word pictures that came not from a camera but
from Fred Friendly's typewriter.