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...Trailer, a former cowboy who had a Saturday morning children's T.V. show about seven years ago. Now he leads trips to exciting Walt Disney World over April school vacation and, on Labor Day, helps raise money for Jerry's kids. Chet Curtis and Natalie Jacobsen, Channel 5's anchor team and newlyweds who recently had their first child (many dollars are pledged in the name of 14-week-old Lindsay Dawn). Jess Cain, who's been spinning records early in the morning since about forever. John Willis, the lethargic host of Channel 5's wake-up-slowly Morning Magazine...
...1970s, the baby-boom children were "singles," the glamour class of childless sybarites that had responsibilities to no one other than themselves. A decade later, they are dropping anchor. Harvard Demographer George Masnick foresees them aspiring "to put down roots, to plant gardens, to rake the leaves." Already, says he, "young men and women are moving to the country in droves, trying to get away from the singles bars, the single apartment complexes...
...Chancellor asked Ustinov why the British people love the royal family so, Ustinov said it was the same drive that makes them "rip out seats at football matches. I think they're trying to find their origins." CBS was the most restrained of the three networks in its anchor-desk prattle, preferring for the most part to pass along the elegant and understated coverage provided...
...first day of creation. When Parents' unsuspecting eagle-with a thrush stowed away on its back-lifts off majestically at the upward wave of the storyteller's hand, the audience lifts off too, out the window of the Opera House, above the sun-dappled boats lying at anchor in Rockport harbor, beyond time, beyond space. Somewhere off in a primeval woods everybody's inner ear hears a sneaky, undeserving little hitchhiker of a thrush trill the loveliest of songs...
...will occupy himself with special projects and add an Eric Sevareid-style commentary to the news several times a week beginning next April. NBC has also talked about extending the Nightly News to an hour, giving Brokaw the time and latitude to produce special reports in addition to his anchor duties. How much control Brokaw and Mudd will exert over editorial content, however, is still up in the air in NBC's front office. Brokaw is optimistic: "We're not there just to read the news...