NEW YORK INTELLIGENCE! TIME/ LIFE ROB PETER 50 `Assassins' Probe Media Monitor: Gets Prime Time Quick Takes The "unanswered" ques- • Bob Schieffer, the CBS fions in the assassinations of White House correspondent, John F. Kennedy, Robert grew up in the shadow of Kennedy, Martin Luther King his brother Tom, who serves Jr., and the attempted assas- in the Texas legislature. That sination of George Wallace used to bother Bob, but no will be examined in a CBS more—thanks to Bill Small, News report that may pre- the CBS News executive who empt most of the network's assigned him to the White nighttime schedule on No- House. As Bob Schieffer puts vember 20. According to Les it, "I used to be Tom Schief- Midgley, executive producer fer's brother, but Bill Small of "The Assassins," what is gave me my own identity. currently being checked out Now I'm Dan Rather's re- includes: placement." Brother Tom is • The possibility of a a man with a sense of hu- "second Oswald" firing at mor, too. He recently per- Bouton as Maverick: Will television get a hit off him? J.F.K., as well as the first suaded a waitress in Vail, Oswald's CIA connections. Colorado, where the presi- Winding Up for a TV Pitch: • The discrepancies in the dent was vacationing, to go R.F.K. shooting account, up to Bob and ask, "Haven't Hometown Boy's New Stuff such as the powder burns on I seen you on TV?" Bob said Jim Bouton says he isn't just collecting material for an- Kennedy vs. eyewitness testi- she probably had, because other book up in Oregon where he's pitching for the Port- mony saying that Sirhan Sir- he covers the White House land Mavericks. But the 36-year-old ex-Yankee, who took han's gun wasn't that close. for CBS. Then the waitress a leave without pay from his CBS News sportscaster's job • James Earl Ray's finan- delivered the line Tom had to make his baseball comeback, is in fact working on a cial backing and his eccentric written for her: "Oh, really? Tell me, what is Dan Rather television situation-comedy series based .on his first literary movements before and after really like?" effort, Ball Four, which had a healthy lifetime sales record the King shooting. IOR WORLD of about 2 million copies in hardcover and paperback. • The alleged Charles Col- Bouton's first weeks back on the mound suggest he's not son–Richard Nixon interest simply funning around; he won two out of three games. in Arthur Bremer, suggested (His previous record was 61 wins and 60 losses.) And by at least one of the White Bouton's Channel 2 colleague and occasional baseball House tapes. practice partner Jim Jensen isn't at all surprised. According Midgley, who produced to Jensen, "Bouton still has his fast ball, and a beautiful the CBS News special on the knuckler that goes whoosh, dropping away from the batter Warren Report in 1967, ac- as it crosses the plate." The knuckler, we hear, was per- knowledges that "there has fected on a special "pitch-back" rig Bouton had installed been a rebirth of conspiracy in his backyard. theories, and after Watergate, I can understand that." The Camp David Dancers conspiracy theories flourish mostly on college campuses. Schieffer: Identity crisis. Rated X Stepping Up "The idea for 'The Assassins' It wasn't the Playboy Man- Following in the tapsteps came from Dan Rather," • Harper's magazine will sion, but Camp David did of Bob Fosse and Michael Midgley says. "He was trav- be the newest entry in the have "all the dirty movies," Bennett, another choreog- eling around the country pro- media-monitoring business. according to Maureen Dean's rapher—in this case, a wom- moting his book on Nixon, Editor Lewis Lapham is in- book (with Hays Gorey) , an — has turned director. and the questions he got troducing a new column, "Mo": A Woman's View of Pat Birch (Candide, A Little weren't about Watergate, but tentatively titled "The Fourth Watergate, which Simon and Night Music, Grease) is now about the Warren Commis- Estate," in Harper's Novem- Schuster is bringing out this directing rehearsals of an sion and other governmental ber issue. Rather than one November. At least that's "eclectic musical tribute" to 'cover-ups.' " The first CBS monitor, the column will be what H. R. ("Bob") Halde- the mobile and restless Amer- News report on the Warren open to contributors from man told John Dean when ican people—blacks, whites, Report has been called a outside the magazine. "We Dean was assigned to go up Orientals, the lot of us. The "whitewash." Midgley, nat- don't want any pontification," to the presidential retreat show, Truckload, produced urally, disagrees, but says: "I says Lapham. "The more spe- and draft his famous Water- by the Shubert Organization, hope like hell we can un- cific the item, the better. But gate report. What's more, re- Adele Holzer, and American cover some absolutely sensa- any pretext will do—TV an- ports Mo, who was invited Bandstand's Dick Clark, with tional stuff. . . . These are chormen's styles, the '76 to accompany her husband, music by Louis St. Louis, major criminal cases with presidential campaign, space there was a projectionist on will open at the Lyceum in some exotic people, and shots, even other media mon- duty 24 hours a day. September. strange things going on. . . ." itors. . . ." " W1i-1 -reM4S4 11 I NEW YORK/SEPTEMBER 1, 1975 0 ()SSustrAG