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Whether that is true or not, Sally Quinn was an undisputed success as a society reporter, despite her total lack of experience. When CBS contacted her in 1973 about a position as co-anchor of the newly revamped CBS Morning News, she told Gordon Manning, CBS' news director, "I have the perfect job at the Post, I'm deliriously happy there, and I have no intention whatsoever of leaving." But she did agree to discuss the offer, and the lure of $60,000 a year, the distinction of being the first anchorwoman on TV (Barbara Walters is not, technically...
Unblinking Coverage. The same could not be said for newsmen from ABC, which drew the Wednesday session under the networks' rotating-coverage plan (only the Public Broadcasting Service carried every meeting). When the committee was slow to reconvene after a bomb threat, Co-Anchor Man Howard K. Smith quipped unfunnily that the Representatives could "use a good TV director." At the end of the session, Smith concluded that he "would hate to spend three hours a night, 365 days a year" watching congressional committees in action-a bit of instant disparagement that seemed totally out of place...
...Today program since 1971 and one of television's most prominent newsmen; of pneumonia following treatment for cancer of the bone marrow; in Manhattan. McGee was best known for his crisp, calm reporting at times of stress, epitomized by his twelve-hour marathon as NBC'S co-anchor man the day President Kennedy was assassinated. A seemingly ubiquitous narrator of documentaries, McGee became a lay expert on rocketry while covering the U.S. space program. Although suffering severely from back pains for the past few months, he bravely continued to work; he last appeared on Today less than...
...plains to Montana in a covered wagon, and Chester Robert Huntley's childhood was spent on the raw edge of America's last frontier. The rugged spirit he absorbed from his family and the land prepared him to cultivate the unfilled fields of electronic journalism. As co-anchor man of NBC's Huntley-Brinkley Report for 14 years, he became one of the country's most recognizable celebrities while earning respect for his skill as a newsman. When he left NBC in 1970, he returned to Montana, and it was there that he died last week...
...Died. Chet Huntley, 62, for 14 years co-anchor man of NBC'S immensely popular Huntley-Brinkley Report (see THE PRESS...