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...press can get squeakily self-conscious when the subject is the press itself. On ABC's This Week with David Brinkley recently, the host noted that "the White recession has been accusing us and others like us of prolonging the recession and impeding the recovery by constantly reporting bad news of rising unemployment. Are we guilty of that?" Condensed somewhat - to avoid windiness and repetition - here is how his panelists answered...
...David Brinkley: Well, wait a minute. What do you mean? That we are guilty of prolonging the recession...
History 1628 is popular because it covers "a period that people never got to in high school history," Alan Brinkley, Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History, hypothesized yesterday. He called his course's high rank "a dubious honor...
...NUMBER of professors stood behind their lecterns for their first classes of the semester last week and told the students gathered before them to get lost. "Please don't take this course," implored Alan Brinkley, the Dunwalke Associate Professor of History, as he stared at an auditorium where the class filled the aisles and spilled onto the stage. Other instructors who faced unworkable crowds excluded pass-fail students from enrolling in their courses...
...savior: Grant Tinker, former president of the MTM production shop (Mary Tyler Moore, Lou Grant, WKRP in Cincinnati, Hill Street Blues). Tinker had made his reputation at MTM as THE the velvet-gloved champion of creative personnel, but at NBC he was unable to stanch defections by Newsman David Brinkley (to ABC) and Sports Chief Don Ohlmeyer (to independent production). He did woo many of his old MTM employees to develop relatively sophisticated new series, like the sitcom Cheers and the hospital drama St. Elsewhere. With these shows NBC has asserted its image as the "quality network," though...