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...Today is expected to be more than just a good newsman, of course. Says Co-Host Walters: "The person must be able to do interviews and ad-lib those awful 30 seconds at the end of the show." He must also supply what Schulberg calls "chemical balance" to the stand-up comic pace of Today Reviewer Gene Shalit and the alternately sweet-and-strident Walters. And he must bring himself to do commercials...
...couple of candidates feel that they will never have to get down to the crass tacks of commercials. Says Monroe, for example: "I'm a newsman who doesn't translate into a co-host...
Barbara Walters, 43. "I didn't have a blazing talent, marvelous beauty or great ease," admits the ubiquitous television broadcaster. "I got where I am by hard work and perseverance." Co-host since April of the NBC Today show, whose daily audience is estimated at 10 million, she also conducts her own daily half-hour show, Not for Women Only, which has broken new ground for TV by exploring such controversial topics as male sexual dysfunction and police-community relations, and has also probed into the changing social and economic roles of women. Boston-born, Walters graduated from Sarah...
...serious Martha Mitchell touched up her Directoire coiffure and faced the cameras wearing green silk and diamonds. Following her successful talkshow debut on Washington's Panorama last April, Martha was putting in a week as co-host of New York WCBS-TV morning klatsch, The Pat Collins Show. Often staying up until 4 a.m. in her Manhattan apartment to do her homework on guests that included David Halberstam, Gloria Steinem and Washington Post Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Martha allowed no inhibitions to mar her technique. Slipping into her favorite role of dumbbelle at King Richard...
After considerable experience on the other side of an interview, Martha Mitchell last week took over the guest co-host spot on Washington's midday talk show Panorama. Martha, liberally divesting herself of opinions, condemned streaking, praised Governor Wallace, attacked the nation's schools for being overly psychoanalytical, and deplored conditions in veterans' hospitals. In between, she conducted a few interviews, asking ex-Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas how she felt about the Red-scare smear campaign that Richard Nixon used to defeat her in 1950. Said Douglas: "I woke up the next morning a free person...