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...device known as S-1 was so pervasive that a hush quickly fell over the room and exploration of the options was inhibited. When Japan was issued a warning from Potsdam a month later, no explicit mention was made of either the Bomb or the Emperor. Radio Tokyo broadcast that the Japanese government would treat the warning with "silent contempt." On the island of Tinian that day, a 300-lb. lead cylinder with a core of enriched uranium was being transferred to the headquarters of Colonel Paul Tibbets' 509th Composite Group...
...topping the charts before most of them were born. No matter. The audience at London's Limehouse Studios was dancing in the aisles last week as Singer Carl Perkins taped a rockabilly revival for Britain's Channel 4, to be broadcast on New Year's Day. For the 30th-anniversary celebration of his platinum platter Blue Suede Shoes, Perkins played a set of vintage rock 'n' roll with a little help from such admirers as Eric Clapton, Dave Edmunds, Ringo Starr and George Harrison. Rock groupies were impressed by an even unlikelier occurrence: Harrison, who lost his wife Patti Boyd...
...conversation surely ranks as one of the oddest in the annals of broadcast journalism. During lunch at a Manhattan restaurant two weeks ago, Don Hewitt, executive producer of 60 Minutes, asked CBS Broadcast Group President Gene Jankowski a question. Would the company ever consider selling CBS News? If so, said Hewitt, he and several of the division's brightest stars, including Dan Rather, Diane Sawyer, Mike Wallace, Morley Safer and Bill Moyers, would like to buy it. "I told him CBS News is not for sale. It never was, never is," recalls Jankowski. "I didn't take it seriously...
...wing group called Fairness in Media, says he was only trying to protect the news division from possible meddling by ideologues and corporate raiders. Yet some CBS staffers contend that Hewitt was implicitly taking a swipe at the team of Van Gordon Sauter, executive vice president of the CBS Broadcast Group, and Edward Joyce, president of CBS News. Though Hewitt denies that Sauter and Joyce were his targets, many CBS employees blame the duo for low morale within the division. At the same time, an internal struggle is being waged over how CBS News should...
Some critics within CBS detect a subtler failing, a vague sense that their division no longer represents the vanguard of broadcast journalism. "We don't have a Nightline, we don't have a morning news show that goes to Moscow [as NBC's Today did last year]," says a CBS correspondent. Few changes gall staffers as much as the fate of the CBS Morning News, the perennial also-ran among the three network breakfast programs but the one that presented the most substantive news. To boost ratings, Sauter approved the hiring of Phyllis George, the former Miss America whose flubs...