Word: huntley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just before testifying last week, Charles made a last-ditch attempt to wangle favored treatment from newsmen. To the nation's top TV critics and commentators-NBC's Chet Huntley, the New York Times's Jack Gould, the New York Herald Tribune's John Crosby, et al.-he mailed copies of his prepared statement along with personal notes looking for sympathy. Wrote he to Critic Crosby: "I wanted you to have a copy of this complete from my own hand. It's not a pleasant story, but I tried to make it a true...
...hundred sets in the city ("I had a chance to learn while nobody was watching"), and still claims to be astonished at his own success ("TV grew up, and I happened to be standing there''). He does some specials in addition to the show with Huntley, writes all of his own material, remembers when TV brought him $60 a week, now collects $75,000 a year...
...People Paid Attention."The Huntley-Brinkley combination is the product of pure chance. In 1956, planning coverage of the national party conventions, NBC decided to send in some fresh faces, dispatched Huntley from New York and Brinkley from Washington, expecting them to spell each other. They made it a team operation, brought off the assignment so handsomely that NBC decided to make them a habit. (Said Brinkley wryly of this sudden prominence: "I did what I'd been doing for years, but people paid attention.") In October 1956, Huntley and Brinkley-who had not even met before their paths...
...other will say; their story assignments must be written-and in some cases reported and filmed-in the hours just before show time. The news budget is restricted to five or six items, and which man takes the lead depends entirely on whether the best story is in Huntley's territory or Brinkley's. What they turn out ranks high not only with Nielsen but also with official Washington. Asked by a survey agency last August to name their favorite news program, members of Congress gave Huntley-Brinkley Report top rank (32.8% v. 16.1% for the second choice...
Another memorable letter in their heavy fan mail came from a woman whose devotion made them wince. She and her husband were so attached to the show, she said, that when they went to sleep at night, they always used the Huntley-Brinkley sign-off, one of them saying, "Good night, Chet," and the other replying, "Good night, David...