Word: brinkley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Claiming they had suffered "embarrassment and mental agony," Robert Welch, 64, president of the John Birch Society, two aides and the society itself sued NBC in Fort Worth for $8,000,000 in damages. A May 20 broadcast by Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, said the plaintiffs, falsely reported that the FBI had arrested "parties engaged in selling arms to the society." Said their lawyer: "More than likely, the broadcast went out all over the U.S., and we could have sued almost anywhere, but we wanted a more favorable climate, as distinguished from a climate that is ultraliberal...
...seconding L.B.J. Instead, the network turned breathlessly to Sander Vanocur as he buttonholed David Dubinsky, boss of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. At last came Vanocur's question to Dubinsky: "Did you know that Mrs. Hubert Humphrey makes all her own clothes?" Over to Huntley-Brinkley...
...offer tougher competition to NBC's winsome twosome, Huntley and Brinkley, CBS has replaced Anchorman Walter Cronkite with Roger Mudd and Robert Trout (TIME, Aug. 7), while ABC has Senator Hubert Humphrey and former White House Aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. as special commentators to supplement Howard K. Smith and Edward P. Morgan...
...theory seems to be: if the anchor does not hold, cut it free and drift with the tide. In TV coverage of political conventions, the tide is running to paired team acts like NBC's Huntley and Brinkley rather than single masterminds like CBS's Walter Cronkite. So, gasping in defeat-by-ratings after the San Francisco convention, CBS last week announced that it was replacing Anchorman Cronkite. Its new we-too duet consists of Robert Trout and Roger Mudd, who will be pingponging in Atlantic City at the Democratic Convention three weeks hence, while Cronkite merely carries...
...Sketches. Despite the ratings, the qualitative difference between NBC and CBS was actually quite slight. The convention, after all, was fully and exhaustively visible on all three networks. In the anchor booth, CBS tried a new vertical arrangement in contrast to the horizontal give-and-take of Huntley and Brinkley. CBS's congenial Walter Cronkite carried all the burden of coordinating CBS's coverage, while Eric Sevareid would appear every so often as a kind of deus ex machina and deliver auroral analyses uninhibited by routine details, or a shaft of wit, as when he recalled...