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...seems relaxed, soft-spoken, charming. But there she is, sitting in her Manhattan office, comparing the race among the three network morning shows to a pitched battle worthy of the Iliad. "The competition is ferocious," McGrady says. "It's war games, the combat zone." Several blocks away, Steve Friedman, executive producer of NBC's Today show, seems like ideal fishing-trip company: funny, good-hearted, gregarious. But turn to the subject of Good Morning America and Friedman climbs the ramparts. "They want us to die," he says, voice rising. "I'm telling...
...fault such confidence? Hartman joined the show at its birth in 1975 and, as Today's Friedman admits, "changed the face of morning television." Hartman's abundant curiosity and sense of wonderment still serve him well after all these years; his narration of a flight he took in a B-1 bomber last year vividly captured the sights, sounds and fears. Joan Lunden, who has shared a homey set with Hartman since 1980, has sharpened what once were rather dull interviewing skills. Yet the duo rarely engage in the spontaneous banter of Gumpaul...
Occasionally, Hartman's folksiness curdles into a gee-whizzy naivete, but the man who prides himself on posing the questions the viewer would ask is not given to self-doubt. Told of a comment by NBC's Friedman that "David Hartman is getting older and more tired," Hartman does not bat an eye. "Well, I am getting older," he says as he finishes his stretching exercises on the floor of his ABC office. "That's quite an observation." But is David Hartman weary? "I'm just as excited about this job as I ever was." So saying, Hartman...
...number of neon workshops in the nation has risen from fewer than 500 ten years ago to more than 1,000 (although that is still below the pre-World War II total of 1,500). The upswing is more than fashionable nostalgia. "This is not a fad," says Jeff Friedman, president of Manhattan's Neon City, which has such clients as Bloomingdale's and Haagen-Dazs ice cream parlors. "It's becoming a necessity for business, especially storefronts." Most workshops cannot keep up with orders, and not only because their business is growing. The problem: finding enough skilled craftsmen. Neon...
...should be persuaded to wait until the fall before any action is taken. Since the proper mechanisms are not in place, they should not be thrown together hastily. The protesters have a right to expeditious treatment, but they have even more of a right to due process M. Timur Friedman...