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...diagnosed when doctors could not. Plus, of course, an On the Road about a Missouri man who writes down the names of everyone he has ever met. The show is somewhat controversial within CBS, precisely because it is not prone to controversy. Admits Kuralt: "Bill Moyers, who was to coanchor, thought it would be too much show business. He wanted to be more pure...
...image, then turned her over to Media Associates of Dallas for training in makeup and hairstyling; the station also set up a "clothing calendar" to ensure that she would wear each outfit only once every three weeks. By contrast, few cosmetic demands were made of Craft's male coanchor, Scott Feldman, 34, who had been there longer and was paid $9,000 more. After Manager Replogle told Craft she would be demoted to reporter, she quit to return to anchoring (at $25,000 a year) at KEYT in Santa Barbara...
...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...
...Said ABC News Vice President Richard Wald: "We would rather have someone from inside." Among ABC correspondents, Jennings is the obvious choice. He was ABC'S anchor for three years, beginning in 1965, when he was only 27, and has been persuasive if cerebral as a London-based coanchor; since he shifted to Washington July 4 as a substitute for Reynolds, ABC ratings have rebounded. Ted Koppel is both happy and, in ABC'S view, all but indispensable at the late-hour interview show Nightline. White House Correspondent Sam Donaldson is combative and abrasive. The other anchor...
...pregnancies these days are no less visible than Smith's. When Natalie Jacobson, 38, Boston's most popular news anchorwoman on top-rated WCVB-TV, had her first child last May, some impassioned viewers tried to crash the obstetrics ward to catch a glimpse of her husband and coanchor, Chet Curtis, 42, and her baby, Lindsay Dawn. Thousands of letters and cards poured into the station office. Not only was her pregnancy the occasional subject of the on-camera chitchat that passes between members of television news teams, but a local newspaper gave Page One treatment to Jacobson's call...