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Previous winners of the award include George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, Jacques Cousteau, the underwater explorer, and Water Cronkite, the CBS anchorman...
...Tulsa, KTEW-TV news was a steady third in the local ratings until Anchorman Jack Morris began doing brief commentaries in which he attacked the national press for its Watergate coverage. KTEW news is now first in Tulsa. A recent joke tells of a reporter observing Richard Nixon walking on water. The supposed headline in the next edition of the Washington Post: NIXON CAN'T SWIM...
...fitting climax to a superbly contested meet, Crimson anchorman Hess Yntema gamely closed the gap on Tiger sprinter Mal Howard, only to have the electronic clocking system declare the Tiger quartet a .4 second victor, giving Princeton a slim 419-411 final edge in the overall competition...
...newsmen are resigned to more of the same from "News Watch." Says NBC News President Richard Wald: "It doesn't sound like they're making an enormous effort to be fair." CBS Anchorman Walter Cronkite adopts a more stoical attitude: "This is the meaning of a free press. They're certainly entitled to print any criticism they want." One network executive takes the same elitist stance that angers Buchanan: "No one with an IQ over 70 reads anything in TV Guide except the listings." Which is a cute quip, but not quite accurate; network brass read...
...believe the constitution is really an ineffectual means of governing the country," Howard K. Smith, co-anchorman for ABC television news, said Thursday night at a meeting of the Law School Forum...