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...artists were comic-strip heroes, Horace Clifford Westermann would be Popeye. The gimlet stare, the laconic speech, the cigar stub jutting like a bowsprit from the face, the seafaring background and fo'c'sle oaths, the muscular arm-all are there. He signs his work with an anchor; and Westermann's age, 55, is about right too. What the comparison lacks, of course, is the talent. Westermann's retrospective of 59 sculptures and 24 drawings, which runs until mid-July at the Whitney Museum in New York and then goes on a tour of museums...
...That is a questionable proposition, considering that every single one of its new series failed last season. "There's a rule of thumb," says Producer Tom Miller, "that you don't have a full night of programming without one old show to act as anchor. Without that audience familiarity, NBC may be throwing two or three programs to the winds...
...tartly satirical eye; in Maiden Newton, England. Warner met success early when her first novel (Lolly Willowes) became a premier selection by the fledgling U.S. Book-of-the-Month Club in 1926, but she showed an enduring talent with her genteel, Victorian prose (The Museum of Cheats, The Flint Anchor). A longtime contributor to The New Yorker, she also won acclaim as a poet (Time Importuned), a translator (Marcel Proust on Art and Literature 1896-1919) and a biographer (T.H. White...
...network anchorman as we know it today was invented one night in 1965 when CBS' Walter Cronkite conducted television's first regular half-hour newscast as if he had been born at his desk, all-wise and all-seeing. The anchor concept has held firmly, and for network and local newscasts everywhere, that...
...other networks, where no similar plans to weigh anchor have been announced, the ABC experiment will no doubt be watched closely. "It's a healthy thing for the three networks to take different approaches," says Joseph Angotti, executive producer of the NBC Nightly News. "For too long we've looked the same...