
{"id":19415,"date":"2011-06-30T12:38:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T16:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=19415"},"modified":"2011-06-30T12:43:43","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T16:43:43","slug":"val-lauder-interviews-old-blue-eyes-1948","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/06\/30\/val-lauder-interviews-old-blue-eyes-1948\/","title":{"rendered":"Val Lauder Interviews Old Blue Eyes, 1948"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Thousand Words<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>By Jock Lauterer<br \/>\n<\/strong\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2011\/06\/30\/val-lauder-interviews-old-blue-eyes-1948\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/1KWords063011.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/1KWords063011.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/1KWords063011-113x70.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/1KWords063011-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nVal Lauder, who retired this spring at 85 after teaching feature writing at the School of Journalism &#038; Mass Communication for 31 years, had an illustrious career as a reporter and columnist for the Chicago Daily News, interviewing the likes of President Harry Truman, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and, as seen here, Frank Sinatra. Val, who was honored in 2009 as a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Town Treasure\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of Chapel Hill, remembers this 1948 interview at a press party in Chicago\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Ambassador East hotel to promote the release of the movie The Miracle of the Bells. Sinatra, whose open distain for the press was legendary, was always very nice to Val. Looking back, she says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I worked with and wrote about young people \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 who he liked. I was also one of them \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 19, 20, 21, just turned 22 in the picture here. And we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d already worked together two or three times.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d A pause. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He was charming,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she recalls, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153and very nice to me. He wrote a guest column for me later that year. Typed it on the plane flying in for a benefit for the C.Y.O. at the Chicago Stadium, where I picked it up after his performance.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><strong>A THOUSAND WORDS<\/strong><br \/>\nDo you have an important old photo that you value? Email your photo to jock@email.unc.edu and include the story behind the picture. Because every picture tells a story. And its worth? A thousand words.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/sections\/a-thousand-words\/\">More &#8220;A Thousand Words&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Val Lauder, who retired this spring at 85 after teaching feature writing at the School of Journalism &#038; Mass Communication for 31 years, had an illustrious career as a reporter and columnist for the Chicago Daily News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-thousand-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19421,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19415\/revisions\/19421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}