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Saturday's Harvard-Princeton match up at the IAB is thus crucial for both teams, and NBC will feature it as its ECAC Game of the Week. To accommodate the television plans, the starting time has been pushed back to 1 p.m. If you want a seat for the big event, make the trip up to the top of the IAB early...
...called an invention. Only lately has news begun overhauling its old way of presenting stories. Perhaps this is one reason why CBS, best and haughtiest of the news organizations, has gone to its sports division to find the new head of CBS News, Van Gordon Sauter, 46. CBS and NBC were the first to sneer 4½ years ago, when ABC chose its sports wonder Roone Arledge to head both ABC News and Sports. Arledge sent Sauter a wry congratulatory telegram, suggesting that CBS obviously knew the right place to look for a new news boss...
...three networks are now about on a par in the ratings, with CBS hoping to build on the narrow lead it enjoys under Dan Rather, with NBC about to replace John Chancellor with Tom Brokaw, and with Arledge still seeking the right anchormanly combination. There is no assurance of a sweet resolution of anxiety...
Television journalists Frank Reynolds of ABC, Roger Mudd of NBC, Bruce Morton of CBS, and Robert MacNeil of the MacNeil-Lehrer Report, will probably attend. ABC news president Roone Arledge and former CBS news president William Leonard are also expected...
DIED. Paul Lynde, 55, comedian best known as a wisecracking panelist on NBC's The Hollywood Squares; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Lynde's cheerfully prissy manner and arch responses to game-show questions won him five Emmy nominations and a wide daytime following. As an actor, he played a befuddled fussbudget who delivered witticisms in the face of disaster in the stage and film versions of Bye, Bye Birdie and more than a dozen hapless Hollywood comedies...