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Network executives still lie awake at night dreaming of ways to duplicate that glorious feat. This month two of those visions are having their debuts: NBC's American Almanac premieres this week and CBS's West 57th next week.[*] Both magazine shows last an hour, but they have little else in common. In style and approach, the programs are as different as, say, a hip teenager and his slightly stolid...
...West 57th, named for the Manhattan street where CBS News is based, establishes its pace in the briskly edited montage that opens each show. Phone ringing in a CBS control booth. Someone shouting something about a tape not rolling. Lots of quick camera cuts showing hubbub in the booth spliced with shots from the week's stories. The thumping music swells into a jazzy roar as Correspondent Jane Wallace dashes up a flight of stairs. The other three correspondents (Bob Sirott, Meredith Vieira, John Ferrugia) are presented in quick succession, getting out of chairs and talking on phones...
Most of these series stand no more chance than a June bug of being around when the weather turns cool. A few, however, are making serious tryouts for the regular season schedule. Next month CBS will unveil West 57th, a new magazine show that could return in midseason if it does well. Also set for August is CBS's Hometown, an hour comedy-drama about a group of college friends from the '60s who reunite for some soul searching in the '80s. The resemblance to The Big Chill is impossible to miss: characters reminisce about antiwar rallies and ponder...
...men’s Nordic competition, sophomore Magnus Grimeland took 56th in the 10K Classic with a time of 36:40.3, followed by freshman Oliver Burrus in 57th, senior Russ Leino in 58th, freshmen Steve Amrock and Chris Nabel in 62nd and 64th, and junior Tom Gilmore in 65th. In the 20K Free Technique, Burrus finished 54th with a time of 1:00:23.1, followed by Grimeland in 58th, Leino in 59th, and Nabel in 63rd...
Dickerson took 47th in the GS with a time of 2:15.6. Connors was 53rd, captain Molly Simmons was 56th, and freshman Christina Kozak was 57th...