Word: brinkley
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Nearly all the co-anchor schemes since Chet Huntley and David Brinkley broke up in 1970 (an entropy year: Huntley-Brinkley and the Beatles) have been awkward. ABC failed badly with Harry Reasoner and Barbara Walters. NBC's Tom Brokaw-and-Roger Mudd team was just as happy and long-lived. NBC once considered hiring Diane Sawyer as a co-anchor, and discussions of teaming Brokaw with, say, Jane Pauley will now revive. But, says Brokaw, "I'd be bored. There's not enough for two people to do." If ABC wants to switch to a co-anchorship...
...personal level, he was extremely warm andhelpful to his students, invited us to his homeoften, but on an associative level he reallyagonized over the plight of his students'employment," Brinkley said...
...many years the person to whom people with unorthodox projects would go," said Brinkley, who is now a professor of history at Columbia University. "He sponsored [the book] All God's Dangers, an oral history of a Black sharecropper, at a time when it was hard to imagine anyone at Harvard would accept...
...book, written by a Harvard student under Freidel's guidance, later won a National Book Award, Brinkley said...
...Brinkley said Freidel's generosity anddedication were the reasons for his popularityamong graduate and undergraduate students...