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...esteemed colleagues has called this summer's Washington "Dullsville." NBC's North Carolina-born oracle David Brinkley was stirred by the capital's somnolence to thoughts of 40 years ago, before air conditioning and the telephone overwhelmed the verandas and magnolias. And the New York Times' James Reston, the most distinguished analyst of Washington's hot air, checked his stalled political anemometer and took himself off to Cuba for real Havana cigars...
With Cambodia going down the drain, four provinces of South Viet Nam lost [March 24], Thailand turning neutralist and the Philippines re-examining its commitments, where are the great sages now who ridiculed the domino effect? Where are you now, Sevareid, Cronkite, Chancellor, Brinkley, Reasoner, Newsweek, TIME? Let's hear it for the media party line and adversary mischiefism...
...Howard K. Smith had been the preferred network commentator in the White House, but it was Smith, rather than CBS's Eric Sevareid or NBC'S David Brinkley, who called for Nixon's removal last fall. The Detroit News is a conservative bastion, and its editor Martin Hayden had been on friendly personal terms with Nixon for 25 years; last November the News said Nixon could best serve the nation by resigning. Other papers and editors previously more or less partial to the President?including the Denver Post, Chicago Tribune, Kansas City Times, Omaha World-Herald and William Randolph Hearst...
...brought Huntley to New York in 1956, ostensibly to compete with CBS'S Edward R. Murrow. But a chance pairing with Washington Correspondent David Brinkley at the 1956 political conventions made television history. Huntley's informed earnestness was the perfect foil for Brinkley's wry wit. Enthusiastic viewer response prompted NBC to reunite the team on the evening news in October. The program's sign-off ("Good night, Chet"-"Good night, David") soon became a slice of Americana. The Huntley-Brinkley Report consistently clobbered the opposition networks in ratings and won every major award available...
...Died. Chet Huntley, 62, for 14 years co-anchor man of NBC'S immensely popular Huntley-Brinkley Report (see THE PRESS...