Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course ABC received thousands of condolence notes, following thousands upon thousands of get well messages received since the April day when Reynolds fell ill at 59 and took leave from his anchor duties. And Reynolds' funeral at Arlington National Cemetery this weekend attracted hundreds of mourners, including friends Ronald and Nancy Reagan. But beyond family members and a few folks back at the studios, it's hardly likely that any of Reynolds' fans even the die-hards who couldn't eat dinner without him starring into the living room--will continue to feel much prolonged agony over his passing...
...professional" Reynolds was, of how he had fought his way through a 35-year rise from a radio reporter in his native Indiana to the top spot at ABC News Others noted his initial reluctance in 1967 to "sell out" as a field correspondent to become a co-anchor with Howard K. Smith, a position he subsequently held for three years, until ABC--seeking a ratings boost--replaced him with the more avuncular Harry Reasoner. But since resuming anchor duties on ABC's revamped news program in 1978, his friends continued, Reynolds had helped pull the once-struggling network into...
Next, he is eyeing a quadruple crown. After all, Jesse Owens took four firsts in Berlin. At the U.S.-East Germany dual meet in Los Angeles last Saturday, Lewis ran the anchor leg in the winning 4x100 meter relay. It was a promising start toward a fourth gold medal and still another reason why some call him the world's greatest athlete. "It's something I cherish," he says of the accolade. "I've worked hard for it. I mean, nothing was just given...
...Angeles, plus a bureau of 15 in New York City and reporters in Nashville, Atlanta, Miami and London. E.T. staffers and executives are sensitive about charges that the show is all puff and fluff, a p.r. agent's dream. "We're not curing cancer," says Co-Anchor Hendren. "We want to have fun with it." John Goldhammer, senior vice president at Paramount agrees: "We're not out there to nail people." And except for an occasional sitting duck like Pia Zadora, they never...
...witness started out jaunty and self-confident but eventually appeared grim and embattled. Struggling to defend his competence and ethics, he looked as though he were facing a master interrogator - say, Dan Rather when he was on CBS's 60 Minutes. Instead, Rather, now anchor of the CBS Evening News, was the co-defendant being grilled last week in a Los Angeles Superior Court chamber, in a $30 million suit for alleged defamation of a doctor at a clinic accused of insurance fraud...