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...winner was NBC's galloping "news correspondent" Tom Brokaw, fresh from his exclusive prime-time pow-wow with Gorby in Moscow. He still has trouble pronouncing words that begin with the letter "L", but he was in charge throughout with the help of the same bell that rings when letters are turned on Wheel of Fortune. Candidates knew their minute was up when a soft electronic bell was cued, much like Johnny Carson knows he has to break to a commercial when the pianist breaks into arpeggios...
...taste of society and was soon zestfully embracing all the paradoxes of getting ahead as a woman: at 18 she was working for the feminist cause, including distributing pamphlets urging women to "make themselves heard," while just two years later she was accepting a convenient marriage to George Tuttle Brokaw, an unstable millionaire 23 years her senior who was, by her own characteristic admission, a " bore...
...time she divorced Brokaw, after six years of marriage, she was assured of a handsome settlement to help her take on the world. That she promptly did. At a dinner party in 1929, she asked her host, Publishing Magnate Conde Nast, for a job. He, taking her for a social butterfly, refused. She, unwilling to take no for an answer, simply went to the offices of his main magazine, Vogue, sat down at an unoccupied desk and announced that she was ready to start work writing captions. Within four years she was managing editor of Nast's Vanity Fair...
...disappearing act fueled fresh speculation about whether the ratings game was taking a toll on Rather. Once the top-ranked network anchor, Rather spent most of the summer stuck in third place, behind NBC's Tom Brokaw and ABC's Peter Jennings. But Rather may soon have reason to smile again: in trial runs of the new "people meter" rating system, which made its official debut last week, the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather finished in first place. No details, however, about how those six minutes of CBS Evening News Without Dan Rather fared...
Cosby's now fabled return to prime time was still years away. Tom Werner and Marcy Carsey, two ABC program executives, had approached Cosby's agent, Norman Brokaw, several times about creating a sitcom for the comic but had generated no interest. Early in 1984 that changed. Cosby says he had spent some time watching TV and was appalled at the "lack of anything you could feel good about watching with your family. It was all car chases and breasts and characters yelling at each other and saying Yowie!" Carsey and Werner (who had since left ABC and formed their...