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...time that milestone fever has obscured just what was a big deal about it--and what wasn't. And those questions were amply illuminated by a sedate, tiny and altogether un-fevered wire item in last Wednesday's New York Times--a dry announcement of the appointment of Mary Donaldson, a former nurse in her sixties, as London's first female Lord Mayor...
...White Gold Wielder, Donaldson...
...Hollywood Wives, Collins (1 last week) 2. Christine, King (2) 3. The Seduction of Peter S., Sanders (3) 4. August, Rossner (4) 5. Who Killed the Robins Family?, Adler and Chastain 6. White Gold Wielder, Donaldson (6) 1. The Name of the Rose, Eco (8) 8. Godplayer, Cook (5) 9. The Little Drummer Girl, Le Carré (7) 10. Decision, Drury...
...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 in the current format, Chicago-based Max Robinson, never caught on with ABC executives and has been told he will be reassigned. The fact that Robinson is black creates diplomatic problems for ABC. But it seems not to be an issue for audiences...
...remarks, they often find themselves having to correct his misstatements of fact. "The operative word is ignorant," Curtis Wilkie, a Washington correspondent for the Boston Globe, told Hodding Carter. "He's lazy. He's not stupid. He's shrewd. He's a smart politician." Sam Donaldson of ABC added: "You combine a very mechanized, ruthless ability to control the flow of news and Mr. Reagan's absence of a lot of depth . . . and you have a situation that just drives us up the wall...