Word: brinkley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tourist treatment, discovered the "sweet relationship" between waffles and syrup, stood in the Lincoln Memorial and "timidly waved at the immortal face." Skagit Valley College received him with a banner and a banquet. The family that "adopted" him had redecorated the spare bedroom. Neighbors stopped in with cakes. Huntley-Brinkley televised him. Some will pin the word "naive" on Legson's wide-eyed good will and on America's cozy, corny reception of him. But there may be more basic human realism in this naivete than cynics either in the U.S. or in Africa would concede...
...their annual convention in Washington last week, the American Society of Newspaper Editors invited TV Newscaster David Brinkley to speak his mind about the newspaper business. If they expected a kick in the shins, the editors were surprised by a pleasant pat on the back. Reporters, said Brinkley, are always asking him whether TV will ever replace the newspaper. "That is the silliest thing I ever heard of," he said. "Most of the news in the papers we cannot cover and we never will be able to. When it comes to covering news in any kind of detailed...
...WASHINGTON (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). David Brinkley's second annual report on the doings...
With next season's schedules all but inked in, NBC calmly revealed that the Huntley-Brinkley news, already 80% sold, will be the biggest-grossing show on television. Its $21,000 per minute of commercial is not really all that big-Bonanza, the top-rated series, gets $63,000 a minute-but when it is multiplied by five times every half hour, five times a week, 52 weeks a year, it gets staggering. About $27 million, in fact...
...gets more per minute ($24,500) but only runs four minutes of commercials on every half-hour show. Thus Cronkite will gross about $25.5 million next year, tops at least for his network. Says one NBC spokesman: "Unless ABC puts Peyton Place on five nights a week, Huntley-Brinkley has no competition...