Word: cunningham
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Powerplay, Cunningham...
These have been tearful days in televisionland. Earlier this month, the Cunningham family sobbed and even Fonzie got a little misty-eyed at the wedding of Joanie and Chachi, as Happy Days bade farewell after eleven seasons on the air. Ann Romano (Bonnie Franklin) said an equally weepy goodbye to family, friends and Indianapolis apartment as she left for a new job in London, bringing to a close nine seasons of One Day at a Time. But the most heartfelt lamentations may be taking place offscreen, in the executive suites at ABC, CBS and NBC. The demise of those...
...Robert Cunningham, a Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., police detective, had been a regular at Sal's Pizzeria in nearby Yonkers for eight years when, one night in March, he decided to offer Waitress Phyllis Penzo an unusual tip. "Hey, Phyl, I've got a lottery ticket in my pocket," he said. "Why don't we split the card?" Penzo took her chances, helped choose the numbers and ended up with a very nice tip in deed: $3 million. The newly made millionaires have modest plans for their winnings. While they both have dreams they want to fulfill...
...Gregg L. Cunningham...
Powerplay might be better subtitled Everybody in the World Against Me. Cunningham, for example, bitterly denounces Bendix Board Members Peter Peterson, former chairman of Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, and Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense, for trying to nudge her out. She quotes Rumsfeld as telling Agee, "All right. So you piddled on the floor. But you don't have to have your face wiped in it. She's got to go." Cunningham charges W. Michael Blumenthal, former Bendix chairman and Treasury Secretary under Jimmy Carter, with spreading malicious gossip. She writes that Blumenthal remarked to Bendix Board...