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Regarding the April 3 article "Every Town is Our Town," it is format to see that he still has none of the "mutual respect" he so piously mentions in his last paragraph. I refer, of course, to his line in the next-to-last paragraph that "they like to assure me that all of us here at Harvard are born-and-bred snobs just as they assume that we all live on Beacon Hill and who prepped at Andover and Exeter." Mr. Wurf is implying that all those who live on Beacon Hill and who prepped at Andover and Exeter...
...unable to estimate the cost of the project, but said it would depend on the size of the press run and the format of the guide, which have not been decided...
Playing catch-up made ABC receptive to change. It was the first network to encourage Hollywood studios to produce series, striking early deals not only with Disney but also with Warner Bros. (77 Sunset Strip, Hawaiian Eye). ABC was also a pioneer in the made-for-TV movie format. Perhaps its most striking achievements came in sports programming. Under the leadership of Producer Roone Arledge, ABC increased the scope of athletics coverage with its weekly Wide World of Sports; introduced technical innovations like the instant replay; brought pro football into prime time with Monday Night Football; and substantially raised...
...pacesetter. In the same era, ABC's News division became a full-fledged rival of CBS and NBC for the first time. The network hired away such respected TV journalists as Harry Reasoner and Barbara Walters from competing networks. Its evening newscast, despite a confusing succession of changes in format and anchors, moved steadily upward in audience numbers. And in 1979, during the Iranian hostage crisis, ABC launched network TV's first regularly scheduled late-night news program, the provocative, high- voltage Nightline, with Anchorman Ted Koppel...
...that the true-life scenario, which reached its climax last week, is too corny to make a movie; nothing is too corny to make a movie. It is rather that the good part is yet to come. A 13-part mini-series might be a more appropriate format to exploit what promises to be one of Hollywood's most interesting sagas, the very real corporate marriage of two of the most flamboyant businessmen in the world...