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Arledge brought over from sports a lot of hustle, money, audacity and electronic gadgetry. What assaults the eye often benumbs the brain, but now all the networks are doing the same. Overdoing it, in fact. Arledge thinks his imitators' gadgetry is more distracting than his own. The anchorman still sits there quietly, but over his shoulder his surroundings have taken on a dancing, flip-flopping life. A machine called Quantel inserts a picture in a corner of the screen, zooms it up to full screen and back down; a computer called Chyron flashes numbers and text on the screen...
...former CBS anchorman, who delivered the Class Day address at Harvard in 1980, was the fifth choice of Yale seniors. Their first four choices--Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Garry Trudeau, Woody Allen and Alan Alda--all turned down invitations to speak...
...afternoon, Murrer came from way back to give the Crimson mile relay team a victory. After getting the hand off from Jim Herberich, Murrer tried to pass Brown's anchorman West, whom he had just beaten in the 500, but was unable to keep up with him. With just steps to go, Murrer came out of nowhere and passed West to be the first to break the ribbon...
...Prickley barely has time with all this to book movies for Monster Chiller Horror Theater, which is hosted by Count Floyd, the dipso anchorman of the SCTV news, masquerading in vampire dress. Certainly she never has time to screen her selections. One week's entry was Dr. Tongue's 3-D House of Stewardesses, in which the actors attempted to achieve the illusion of objects flying from the screen by swaying like pendulums. This was followed by Whispers of the Wolf ("Boy, sounds really scary, eh, kids!" howled the Count), which turned out to be an essay...
...former Anchorman Walter Cronkite pitched in, as his successor Dan Rather repeated, "to put this thing into perspective"; NBC Anchor John Chancellor worked side by side with his successor, Tom Brokaw; ABC Good Morning America Correspondent Steve Bell co-anchored with Frank Reynolds, assisted by Ted Koppel, Barbara Walters and David Brinkley, in his debut on ABC . They, in turn, called on government leaders and political analysts for help in sorting out the implications of the tragedy in Cairo...