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...first document in the packet is a memorandum dated June 23, 1970 from the FBI's Philadelphia office to a Special Agent named Brinkley. The memo directed him to contact Selective Service Headquarters in Harrisburg, Pa. -the site of the upcoming trial of the Rev. Philip Berrigan and five other defendants indicted for allegedly conspiring to kidnap Henry A. Kissinger '50-to determine if UNDO had engaged in either of the following illegal practices...
...that was missing, ABC News President Elmer Lower concluded, was what he called a "box office value" anchor man. A national survey commissioned from an audience-research firm showed that CBS's Walter Cronkite was America's favorite; No. 2 was not NBC's David Brinkley or Chet Huntley (he was still around then) or even Reynolds' fellow commentator, Howard K. Smith. It was the CBS back-up man, Reasoner...
...features a famed raconteur who cannot recall the punch lines to his stories but finally remembers a punch line without any anecdote to go with it. One wickedly funny parody of a news commentator, David Chetley, achieves a masterly mimicry of the arch pauses and polysyllabic whimsy of David Brinkley...
Died. Dr. Stuart Brinkley Jr., 54, physicist and pioneering researcher into the characteristics of explosives; of a heart attack; in South Bristol, Maine. Though he lost both hands in a lab explosion while a student at Yale, Brinkley did not let the tragedy hamper his career: he learned to use artificial hands, experimented without letup. His treatise on blast wave theory, written with Cornell Professor John Kirkwood, is a classic in its field...
...eyed, the rich voice faltering just a bit, Chet Huntley said farewell after 14 years on NBC's Huntley-Brinkley Report. "Be patient and have courage," he told his viewers, advising them that "there will be better and happier news some day-if we work at it." NBC provided for Huntley's ride into the sunset of his Montana resort by presenting him with a horse, and that offered David Brinkley a chance to close on a lighter note. "From now on, when somebody stops me in the street and says, 'Aren't you Chet Huntley...