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...show was an effete, elitist program that went on at great length," says former Producer Paul Friedman (no relation to current Producer Steve Friedman). "When I arrived in May 1976, the news ran from 7 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. After the weather there would be a 20-minute debate between the lovers of seals and the users of seals. From 8 to 8:15 an interview with the author of India from 1822 to 1925. At 8:30, after more news and weather, there would be a 20-minute interview with Yehudi Menuhin." Says TomBrokaw: "Sometimes Today was just...
...Good Morning imitated the original Today show, Today is now imitating Good Morning imitating Today. The changes began in 1976 under Paul Friedman: interviews were cut down and sharpened. Phil Donahue, whose syndicated talk show is seen by 8.5 million viewers daily, was hired for a shorter four-times-a-week Today segment. Says one NBC insider: "The thrust was 'Let's figure out what makes Good Morning successful and duplicate...
...Free to Choose, Milton & Rose Friedman...
DIED. Elizabeth Smith Friedman, 88, cryptographer and co-author of the 1957 book The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined, in which she and her husband William used modern statistical methods of linguistic analysis to dispute the theory that Sir Francis Bacon was the secret author of Shakespeare's plays; of arteriosclerosis; in Plainfield, N.J. Learning code-breaking during World War I at the U.S. Government's Riverbank Laboratories in Geneva, Ill., Friedman served as an expert witness in such trials as the so-called Doll Woman Case of 1944, in which an antique doll dealer in New York City...
Also: Pat Boone, James Cagney, Connie Francis, Milton Friedman, Lionel Hampton, Jack LaLanne, Michael Landon, Dean Martin, Eugene McCarthy, Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, Gloria Swanson...