"YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS ARE AS DAZZLING AS YOUR SUBJECTS"

Sunday, April 21, 2013

DAVID O. IVES GONE ALMOST A DECADE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

DAVID O. IVES 
April 21, 1919-May 16, 2003 


At WGBH-TV 
Channel 2, Boston 

From an editorial in the April 4, 2013, Barnstable Patriot


"Do you remember the wonderful old bow-tied Brahmin David O. Ives, who often popped up on Boston’s WGBH Channel 2 in the 1970s to flog donations from viewers? The station executive had a way about him, including a willingness to make a fool of himself by crooning, 'Help keep your station alive, folks/Help keep the wolf from our door/Please send your kind contribution/To Boston 02134.'" 

As the New York Times said in its obituary, David Otis Ives "as head of the public broadcasting station WGBH-Boston helped build it into a national powerhouse for the Public Broadcasting Service...." 

More from Variety here and WGBH here

Thursday, April 11, 2013

ETHEL KENNEDY IS EIGHTY-FIVE

ETHEL KENNEDY 
b. April 11, 1928 


ETHEL'S GOT GAME 

Ethel Kennedy (on crutches) and her family depart Sunday 
mass and go sailing in Hyannisport, Massachusetts 

Published in Women's Wear Daily, July 11, 1972 (p. 1) 

An appreciation of Ethel Kennedy and her life with and without Robert F. Kennedy, published on the occasion of the HBO broadcast of her daughter Rory's film ETHEL, can be found here

Monday, April 8, 2013

THE IRON LADY, MARGARET THATCHER, FELLED BY A STROKE

MARGARET THATCHER 
October 13, 1925-April 8, 2013 


BRITISH PRIME MINISTER MARGARET THATCHER 
DOES THE POWER WALK WITH THE REST OF THE 
G7 LEADERS IN WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA, IN 1983 

Obituaries and Appreciations here and here 

Thursday, April 4, 2013

BOBBY RAY INMAN IS EIGHTY-TWO

BOBBY RAY INMAN 
b. April 4, 1931 


ADMIRAL INMAN (Ret'd) 
in the early 'Eighties  
with interesting thoughts on 
Poland and Solidarity 


Bobby Ray Inman, who now holds the Lyndon B. Johnson Centennial Chair in National Policy at the University of Texas, made a career in the Navy and Intelligence, becoming first Director of the National Security Agency (under President Carter) and then Deputy Director of the CIA (under President Reagan); nominated, but resigned before a vote in the Senate, to be Secretary of Defense (under President Clinton).  Details can be found here and here and here and here and here