Even in his youthful career phase here at WFIL radio and TV in the 1950s and early '60s, the personable Mr. Clark carried himself with a gentlemanly, grown-up demeanor. We chatted recently about the latter.
Some people delegate all the responsibility, and just sit out in the audience.
All hell breaks loose backstage at those events. As I do it, part of the job is booking and promoting, part is caressing the egos, choreographing the production, getting it off the air on time. Chronicling how this works would make a great backstage documentary. At the most, we run two or three minutes over. There are a lot of them.