Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eyed, the rich voice faltering just a bit, Chet Huntley said farewell after 14 years on NBC's Huntley-Brinkley Report. "Be patient and have courage," he told his viewers, advising them that "there will be better and happier news some day-if we work at it." NBC provided for Huntley's ride into the sunset of his Montana resort by presenting him with a horse, and that offered David Brinkley a chance to close on a lighter note. "From now on, when somebody stops me in the street and says, 'Aren't you Chet Huntley...
Died. Barry Wood, 61, radio crooner on the 1940s Hit Parade who turned to TV producing; of a heart attack; in Miami Beach. Wood's credits range from the Kate Smith Show to the Bell Telephone Hour, but he is best remembered for NBC's Wide, Wide World, which from 1955 to 1958 celebrated the wonders of the continent from the Grand Canyon to the Florida Keys...
...Karen Wyman (nee Weinman), 17, though barely tall enough to clear a slot machine, played the main room of Las Vegas' Sands the night her class graduated from high school. A demonstration record the year before had won her an appearance on NBC's Dean Martin Show. "From hearing your record," the star told her, "I expected some tall, zoftic girl. Are you a midget?" The 5-ft. 1-in. Karen, having steeled herself to be blasé over meeting "this 52-year-old man," found that "he was gorgeous, and I broke out in hives." Karen...
...Dunst, George Lois and Richard Lord. Top talent worked nights and weekends to produce the ads. Agencies supplied all the materials free, down to the film itself. The $250,000 needed to broadcast the messages came from donations received by McGovern, Hatfield and other Senators after their appearance on NBC last May to seek support in ending the war. Since then the networks have repeatedly refused to sell the Senators additional time for similar programs, contending that their views were well covered in regular news programs. Rebuffed, the Senators turned to advertising on local stations...
...have in common. But it is really where they differ that tells the most. One of the many ironies about Newman is that, although he sings in a raspy, soul-based blues style, his chief concern as a lyricist is Middle America. In Love Story, which he sang on NBC's Liza Minnelli Special last week, Newman sums up middle-age with painful accuracy: "Some nights we'll go out dancin'/ If I am not too tired/ And some nights we'll sit romancin'/ Watchin' the Late Show by the fire." In So Long...