Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...competing in the pageant. But the executive director of the Miss America Greater Syracuse pageant put the bee in her bonnet, explaining the benefits, and off she went, becoming Miss Greater Syracuse, Miss New York and, ultimately, Miss America, who now, upon leaving David Letterman's studio at NBC, received a hand-delivered letter from the William Morris Agency proposing representation. Back at the Plaza, there was another hand-delivered letter from David Merrick, the producer, proposing a discussion of her stage career. (No one uses stamps in this town any more.) Things seemed to be going Williams...
...straight business proposition, and it began, as all sports ventures do today, with television negotiations. The record $87 million price that NBC had attached to the U.S. rights at the Moscow Games in 1980 seemed a lot, but apparently not to Movie Producer David L. Wolper, chairman of the L.A.O.O.C.'s TV committee. "Getting the Games does two things for a network," says Wolper. "One, it sells sponsorships and gets its initial investment back. But also, the Olympics has by far the highest rating during that period of July and August. So the network has the opportunity to publicize...
...gulp their after-dinner coffee and call for their checks as they did in the days of the Roosevelt fireside chats. On big-city bar rails along the coast and in the Midwest, there is hardly room for another foot. For the next hour, wherever a signal from an NBC television transmitter can be picked out of the air, a large part of the population has its eyes fixed on a TV screen...
...still headlined TOO CLOSE TO CALL turned out to be a landslide. Half the election-watching parties in the nation were over before the guests arrived. The ponderous apparatus of the television networks' Election Night coverage had scarcely got on the air before it was over. NBC called the winner at 8:15 p.m. E.S.T., and the loser conceded while Americans were still standing in line at polling booths in much of the country. In a savage repudiation of a sitting President not seen since F.D.R. swept away Herbert Hoover in the midst of the Depression, Americans chose Ronald...
...never seen it since." The leaves of the calendar tumble to reveal the present. The young lady, now at the other end of life, is Bette Davis, 74, and she is playing Alice Vanderbilt, the imperious matriarch of that gilded clan in Little Gloria . . . Happy at Last, an NBC mini-series for next season. The scene now shifts back to Boston, where Davis' comments spark a two-week, city-wide search for the statue. Finally, Cornelius Vermeule, curator of classical art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, pieces together the available clues and concludes that the lost relic...