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Only saber came anywhere near a win with a 5-4 loss by Bob Barnard. Ron Winfield. and Pres Abbott. Barnard and Winfield, each fenced extremely well, bringing in two wins each...
...Shut Out." Then came the flurry of demands for Barnard's presence. CBS paid his air fare to the U.S. so that he could be interviewed on Face the Nation (TIME, Jan. 5)-and, according to CBS News President Richard Salant, donated $5,000 in a charitable gesture to the Christiaan Barnard Research Fund. Suddenly, says Lucy Jarvis, "we found ourselves shut out. We could hardly get near him"-although Barnard did appear on NBC's Today show...
...case, "to protect the network," Lucy Jarvis negotiated an agreement with Barnard's next patient, Philip Blaiberg, and his family. NBC would pay the Blaibergs $9,000 for exclusive interviews before the surgery, $25,000 for exclusive movie and still pictures of the operation itself, and $16,000 for exclusive post-operation coverage. Was this the start of an internetwork auction? Decidedly no, says CBS's Salant. "We did not bid for anything, and we didn't offer anyone anything. We don't believe in payments for rights to a hard-news story. Dr. Barnard doesn...
Sneaked Stills. As luck-and medicine-would have it, neither network got in. The Blaiberg operation came up too fast, and Barnard barred all film crews from the operation. A Cape Town fashion photographer, posing as a medical student, did sneak into the operating-room observation gallery and grabbed some stills; NBC attorneys got a temporary injunction prohibiting him from "selling or disposing" of them. A doctor who had brought his subminiature camera into the operation also took a few pictures but handed them over to Barnard after a reprimand...
...week's end NBC televised an hour documentary on Master Surgeon Barnard-without any transplant footage...