Word: nbc
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...public broadcast station in Boston, turns over a half-hour every day to nonprofit and other community groups to use as they please; its seven-month-old program. Catch 44, is booked solidly three months in advance. Even the networks have begun loosening up their nightly news formats. NBC'S anchor man John Chancellor last spring introduced "Editor's Notebook," an occasional entry designed, as he puts it, for "catching up on stories we never finished, correcting those on which we made mistakes, and generally dropping the other shoe." CBS's 60 Minutes frequently devotes time...
SANDBURG'S LINCOLN (NBC. Friday, Sept. 6, 10-11 p.m. E.D.T.) is, alas, faithful to the spirit of its source, a poet's exercise in mythmaking rather than a balanced and entirely persuasive biography. The Lincoln created by the populist bard has been the unacknowledged source of all the mass media's grapplings with this most enigmatic of great American leaders. Now we are once again in the presence of a figure too compassion ate, charitable, humble and wise to be quite credible-the commoner as saint, but with the sanctity cleverly humanized by just the right...
Next door, in another Southwestern town, NBC's Petrocelli (Barry Newman) is a Harvard-trained lawyer whose big-city tactics are guaranteed to grate on his new neighbors. And working out of his Depression-era home farm in Idaho, CBS's The Manhunter (Ken Howard) will tear across the country in his 1929 Cadillac, hauling in would-be Bonnies, Clydes and Dillingers...
...that I would drop my last name so they wouldn't be hurt. Sometimes things get printed that aren't very nice." Most of what has been written about the curvate star in recent times, at least, has been eminently printable. For her special this winter on NBC, the durable sex kitten is taking the step of readopting her full name: Ann-Margret Olsson. The highlights of the show will doubtless be her takeoffs on 1940s Pinup Queens like Betty Grable and Rita Hayworth. "I am attracted to that era because everything then was so innocent, so happy...
...window of the White House to let in light and air," says Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News. "Ford is not the insecure man that Nixon was. He has never been traumatized by the press, and he doesn't treat the press as an enemy." Says NBC's Tom Brokaw: "It's like New Year...