Word: joes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...yearly station revenues. When executives at Chicago's CBS-owned WBBM this year figured they would lose three evening-news ratings points if Anchor Bill Kurtis jumped to NBC-owned WMAQ, they won him back by counteroffering $250,000 a year. They considered it a bargain. Says Joe Saltzman, a veteran TV newsman who teaches broadcasting at the University of Southern California: "The anchor person presents the news the way people like to hear it. He's worth every penny he gets for that...
...does Joe Califano spend $182 billion?" asked a pharmacist. "The answer is that he can't. He wastes a lot of it." In the 25-year history of HEW there has never been a clearer explanation of the problem, given with such an economy of language...
...call Joe Kraft pretentious, in a capital that also contains Marvin Kalb of CBS, is surprising. Ambitious might be a better word for the hard-working Kraft. He aspires to be as wide-ranging as Walter Lippmann once was but lacks Lippmann's rumbling, reflective authority. He gets around as Lippmann never did. Kraft can dispose of Jerry Brown one day, the Federal Reserve or neutron bomb the next, argue in another column that Carter follows "a policy of divine misguidance" (he has from the beginning condescended to Carter), then emplane to the Horn of Africa to see things...
...players as unsuited for baseball as they were for battle. The old Washington Senators used Bert Shepard, who had one leg; the St. Louis Browns started a one-armed outfielder named Pete Gray. The Cincinnati Reds signed a pitcher who didn't have to worry about being drafted; Joe Nuxhall was only...
...later, Pearl Harbor was attacked and he re-enlisted. "We are in trouble and there is only one thing for me to do," announced the Detroit Tigers outfielder. Red Sox Slugger Ted Williams, who hit .406 in 1941, became a Marine pilot after the 1942 season. The DiMaggio brothers, Joe and Dom, enlisted...