Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration; they held one of the first post-Inauguration dinner parties for the Carter crew. Another bridge builder is Liz Stevens, wife of George Stevens, the director of the American Film Institute; many Carter friends and staffers were at her party for Tom Brokaw, host of NBC's Today show. Other partygivers in Washington, where the sitdown, candlelight dinner still prevails, have duly noted that the Harrimans and the Stevenses both served buffet style, in keeping with the Carter crowd's informal manner...
...Longtime NBC "Tonight Show" host Johnny Carson and sometime "Tonight Show" guest Elizabeth Taylor will travel to Cambridge separately next month to accept the Hasty Pudding's Man and Woman of the Year awards...
Rough Diamond. Avon has supplied them. In addition to Author Woodiwiss, Editor Coffey has discovered Laurie McBain, a 26-year-old Smith graduate whose 428-page Devil's Desire has sold 1,268,000 copies, and Joyce Verrette, a former NBC secretary whose 475-page Dawn of Desire has sold 150,000 more than that. But the biggest discovery was made late in 1973 when a rough diamond as big as the Ritz dropped through Avon's transom...
...This was NBC's second telecast of Monday Night Hockey and neither has turned out too well for the Flyers, who lost last week to the high-flying Montreal Canadians. The Islanders' victory moves them within three points of the Flyers in the race for the Patrick Division title...
...start," concedes Paul Monash, who produced Carrie for the movies before joining CBS last October. After a late start, his network bought up the TV rights to John Dean's Blind Ambition, John Hersey's The Wall and Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls. NBC has kept pace with series plans for Seventh Avenue, by Norman Bogner, and Wheels, by Arthur Hailey. Not resting on its ratings, ABC has hired Roots Producer Stan Margulies for a ten-hour version of Hawaii, by James Michener. Washington, a series based on John Ehrlichman's roman a clef...