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...live programs such as soap operas-to honor the IBEW picket lines at CBS broadcast sites. Such stellar AFTRA members as Newsmen Roger Mudd, Dan Rather and Eric Sevareid had pledged "reluctant" compliance. Would lightning strike? Would a faceless CBS management man rocket to instant fame as substitute anchorman, as did the unsung Arnold Zenker, then manager of the CBS news programming, during the AFTRA strike...
...section of the study group is assessing the amounts of time devoted to various news reports and the importance of the anchorman's enunciation and emphasis of certain words. "We want to know if Walter Cronkite has trouble saying 'Vietnam'," Dolmatch said yesterday...
...Kiss. The opening night's Violin Concerto turned out to be Balanchine's finest work since his 1967 Jewels. Stravinsky's music is less assertive, less obviously heroic than most violin concertos. Instead, it offers a rich conversation with the soloist as a sort of Socratic anchorman. Balanchine's two principal dancing couples follow this dialogue, and sometimes invoke the unexpected by concentrating on minor or secondary themes. All to the point of producing a ballet that is mod, sexy and elegant-vintage Balanchine...
Especially at first, practiced TV performers found themselves at a loss for words. Was Peking excited by the President's arrival? CBS's New York anchorman Charles Collingwood asked Walter Cronkite. Replied Cronkite, honestly if unhelpfully: "I don't know." Even ABC's usually wry and witty Harry Reasoner stumbled occasionally. Chinese society, he concluded after two days, was starkly puritanical, and he had read that young Chinese remained virgins through their early 20s. Reasoner's comment would come as a surprise, no doubt, to some young Chinese...
...going on the air in Washington as well. "It would be nice to have my own network program." Barbara says. "The only woman with a daily network show is Dinah Shore, and she sings. I'd like to do evening news specials like the men do. A female anchorman on the nightly news hasn't happened yet either." No, but will it? "China," says Barbara, "is a step...