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...will-perform attitude of the television big shots make one wonder whether, if Reagan had been forced to stay at his White House office and work, there might have been a huge electronic frown directed around the globe. After all, if such TV personalities as Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw can take time off from their duties to attend, then surely a President can do as much. Thank goodness Walter Cronkite has retired. Had he died on the job, his network might have sought a day of cosmic mourning and tribute...
...current champion, CBS's intense, adrenal Dan Rather, 51, will be matched, starting on Labor Day, against NBC's boyish Tom Brokaw, 43, who at present is a coanchor. At ABC, which has had a three-cornered format, executives are expected to announce this week that elegant, Canada-born Peter Jennings, 45, will be the central figure of a revamped one-anchor show. Contends Van Gordon Sauter, president of CBS News: "A one-anchor format provides continuity, more time for stories and less fragmentation of viewers' attention...
ESSENTIALLY, Reynolds came across last Wednesday night as television's shining knight, remembered in the most glowing terms by those who knew him best. "He was not someone you could push around," said NBC's Tom Brokaw. ABC's media critic Jeff Greenfield said Reynolds never favored," "style over substance," as so many in the television industry do. CBS's Harry Reasoner was among the few who tried to put things in perspective, cautioning, "I don't think Frank would like to be pictured as the last of a vanishing breed." But, he quickly added, "What...
Donaldson savors the "terribly good exposure" and high pay (about $450,000) on the White House beat. He has already held the post longer than any of his first-string network rivals and almost twice as long as one of his most celebrated predecessors, NBC Anchor Tom Brokaw. Says Donaldson: "It takes a certain resiliency to persevere in covering the White House-or, a critic might say, a dullness of wit." He has tried out as anchor on ABC's Sunday-night newscast and on Nightline when Ted Koppel is away. But whatever else...
...chose Henry Kissinger and Lawyer Edward Bennett Williams. Flanking former President Jimmy Carter were Graham herself and Margaret Truman Daniel. Rosalynn Carter dined with former Democratic Party Boss Robert Strauss and Richard Simmons, Washington Post Co. president. Some 2,400 other place cards included notables from television (Tom Brokaw, Walter Cronkite), business (Laurance Rockefeller, Lee Iacocca) and show business (Steven Spielberg, Diana Ross). Two hours of after-dinner ceremonies went from Graham's opening remarks to a closing "My Turn" salute by Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald, who observed that TIME and Newsweek have been "inevitably linked...