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...More Jane? Sounds impossible. No one in TV has been harder to avoid, either on the tube or in the press, over the past few months than Jane Pauley. For 13 years, she was the perky, professional, largely taken-for-granted co-anchor of NBC's morning show Today. When turmoil in the person of a blond, eager-to- please interloper, Deborah Norville, 32, engulfed the show last fall, Pauley bowed out -- and suddenly found herself the most in-demand news personality in America. She got her own prime-time show, which has drawn good ratings this summer...
...these familial, regular-Jane instincts that have made Pauley shine brightest in a galaxy of female TV news superstars. Diane Sawyer has the beauty and brains but neither the warmth nor a program that shows her off to much advantage. Connie Chung's recent announcement that she is taking time off to get pregnant seemed a bizarre blurring of the line between public and private selves, just the sort of thing Pauley has so gracefully avoided...
Pauley's early life was as real as it gets. She grew up in Indianapolis, the daughter of a milk salesman who traveled half the time (though, she says, "I mostly remember him being home"). In high school Jane was a six-time loser for homecoming queen but a whiz at extemporaneous speaking. Her toughest rival in statewide competitions was another future TV star: actress Shelley Long...
...virtual Who's Who of women in broadcasting, including Cassie Mackin, Linda Ellerbee and Betty Rollin. "I assumed I was there as a courtesy," says Pauley. Improbably, she won the job. "I was very impressed with her poise," says former NBC News president Richard Wald, now at ABC. "Jane looks like somebody you would meet in your neighborhood but who is just a little smarter and more articulate, so that you look...
Handling adulation, famous husband and low-profile kids, Jane Pauley proves you can be supplanted at the workplace by someone younger and survive ever so nicely...