Word: brokaw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...woman from the building across the street was there. Also, the Library Lady, Tony Randall, Gene Shalit, some Saturday Night Live staff and many people I didn't recognize. The party was during the war and NBC security mandated that everyone--from Tom Brokaw to the interns--wear I.D. cards at all times. Dave showed up with his I.D. still hanging around his neck...
...first serious encounter between the co-founder of this magazine and the ^ woman who became his second wife took place at a 1934 dinner given by mutual friends. Clare Boothe Brokaw sat at Henry R. Luce's right, but they scarcely talked, and he left early; she thought him fascinating but incredibly rude. Two months later, at a Waldorf-Astoria party honoring Cole Porter, it was a different story. Oblivious to other guests, including his then spouse Lila, Luce sat with Brokaw at a corner table and conversed intently until 4 a.m. In the hotel lobby, he blurted...
...this slovenly written tattletale, began one of the most famous of America's celebrity unions. With 11-year-old TIME both popular and profitable and newly born FORTUNE a critical success, Harry Luce, then 36, was on the verge of becoming the nation's most powerful magazine publisher. Clare Brokaw -- journalist and playwright, future Congresswoman and ambassador -- at 31 was Manhattan's paradigmatic gay divorcee, renowned as much for her merciless wit as for her delicate porcelain beauty...
...hurdles change often: as competition for advertising spins out of control, the mainstream press is increasingly willing to feed lower on the news chain. This spring NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw, slumming as host of a prime-time show called Expose, dusted off a seven-year-old story alleging that Virginia Senator Charles Robb had spent an evening at a hotel with a former beauty queen and attended parties where drugs were used. Once it knew that Brokaw was going with the story, the Washington Post, which had decided against running it before, took the clothespin off its nose...
Brookings Institution analyst Stephen Hess likens the lowered standards to "a tabloid-laundering operation in which respectable news organizations get into a story through the back door by reporting on a tabloid's reporting on a story." The value of Brokaw, a respected pro who wins journalism awards and dines at the White House, in such a cleanup operation is high. In April, Brokaw sanitized the use of the name of the alleged Palm Beach rape victim in the William Smith case under the guise of reporting on the ethics of a supermarket scandal sheet, which had used the name...