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...Class Committee also recently chose three classmates to join ABC-TV anchorman Ted Koppel in addressing the graduating class and their parents the day before Commencement, at the June 6 Clas Day exercises...
Indeed, corporate pay can seem modest by comparison with what entertainers, athletes and TV personalities earn with their mass appeal. Former Beatle Paul McCartney croons to the tune of an estimated $45 million a year. NBC Anchorman Tom Brokaw makes a reported $2.2 million, almost three times as much as his boss, RCA Chairman Thornton Bradshaw. Running Back Herschel Walker gets $3.9 million over his three-year contract with the New Jersey Generals. Team officials point out that Walker easily earns his salary by boosting ticket sales...
...threat to Democrats, having once referred to them as "barracudas." He explained that "the press puts more emphasis on the freedom of the press element of the First Amendment than [it does] on the freedom of speech element," adding that "policy has become defined by the inflection of an anchorman's voice...
...York. At a debate sponsored by the League of Women Voters in Pittsburgh, both candidates were on their best behavior. They had been warned against outbursts by Moderator Elizabeth Drew, the prim New Yorker writer who wanted none of the unseemly clashes cheerfully tolerated by CBS Anchorman Dan Rather, who had presided over a slugfest a week earlier in New York. At that debate, the candidates sat around a small table and took turns tattooing each other. In Pittsburgh, they sat behind lecterns and politely exchanged paragraphs of their stump speeches. Even when the time came to question one another...
...when CBS Anchorman Dan Rather cheerfully said to Walter Mondale, after the former Vice President had defeated Gary Hart by 41% to 35% in the Illinois primary last week, "Congratulations. I suppose now you're the front runner again," Mondale recoiled in horror. "No, no," he spluttered. "The debate has just begun ... We've got a long fight to go ahead of us here...