Word: anchorman
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...cancer; in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1967, when only 37% of Cleveland's electorate was black, Stokes was elected mayor with 50.5% of the vote. His distinction as the first African-American mayor of a major U.S. city would eclipse the subsequent highs of his life: stints as a TV anchorman in New York City and as ambassador to the Seychelles...
...Jennings holds the position of the best anchorman in the business today," said Marvin Kalb, director of the Shorenstein Center, who presented the award to Jennings...
...GLIDING THROUGH SLAM-glam media roles--senatorial wannabe in The Candidate, screenwriter in The Way We Were, hotshot reporter in All the President's Men--Robert Redford gave some people the idea that he had missed his true calling: anchorman! He had it all: the authority and irony, the requisite twinkle. That craggy charisma would have sat smartly behind a Formica desk. But then news imitated art: the networks created their own lower-wattage Redfords in Brokaw, Jennings, Stone Phillips. And now, when Redford finally gets into a TV-news movie, he's nearly 60, too old to begin...
ROSS BECKER SAYS HE WAS fed up with tabloid television when he left his job as a local TV anchorman in Los Angeles last year and moved to Kentucky, where he now owns an FM radio station. But that didn't stop him from becoming a featured player in the most fervently followed tabloid story of the decade. A week before Christmas, he got a call from an acquaintance, infomercial producer Tony Hoffman, who asked whether Becker would like to conduct the first extended interview with O.J. Simpson since his acquittal on murder charges last October...
...Anchorman Peter Jennings does not seem pleased by speculation that he is dating Barbra Streisand. Responding to reports that he'd shared a cuddly dinner with the chanteuse, he wrote gossip columnist Liz Smith a letter saying, "We spent the entire dinner discussing a speech Barbra was soon to give...