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Their faces are most familiar to insomniacs and night owls, but even early birds are likely to recognize 36 years' worth of late-night television when Johnny Carson, 60, Jack Paar, 68, Steve Allen, 64, and Jerry Lester, 74, appear together next week in a three-hour special celebrating NBC's 60th anniversary. The three Tonight show hosts plus Lester (who had a pre-Tonight variety show called Broadway Open House in 1950-51) had never gathered before. "We started the most imitated show in television, the talk format," boasted a misty-eyed Paar (1957-62). Allen...
...headquarters. Within minutes, TV correspondents in Tripoli were reporting live via telephone to the three anchormen of the nightly newscasts. A nation eavesdropped on telephone conversations between New York City and Tripoli. "Tom, Tripoli is under attack," said Correspondent Steve Delaney, with admirable directness, to Anchorman Tom Brokaw of NBC, the first network to break the news, at 7:02. "What have you seen and heard?" asked ABC's Peter Jennings of Correspondent Elizabeth Colton. Colton was unsure who was doing what to whom; all she knew was what she heard, felt and saw. "Put your microphone out that window...
...awakened by a 1:30 a.m. phone call from his U.S. office and told that an attack was to occur that night. Since the Post's editors did not know exactly when or where it would happen, they decided not to keep a telephone line open. Earlier that day, NBC had sent Producer Mike Silver up in a chartered plane to observe the Sixth Fleet. NBC decided that an attack was imminent and kept a phone line open beginning at 1 p.m. CBS and ABC did likewise...
Music on TV can obviously be enhanced by stereo, but what is the point of wall-to-wall sound for more routine programming like sitcoms? "In mono broadcasts the laugh track is flat," says NBC Senior Vice President Warren Littlefield, "but in stereo it sounds more like a live audience. The audience at home comes closer to the live experience." Others see a big potential for stereo sports. "Imagine getting the Indianapolis 500 in stereo," says Dennis Lewin, senior vice president for sports production at ABC. "You'd have the feeling of the sound as the cars came around...
LaRouche evaded straight answers with accusations and complicated conspiracy theories. When an NBC reporter asked him to explain the finances that support his organization and his heavily guarded 170-acre estate near Leesburg, LaRouche shot back, "I can't talk to a drug pusher like you." What about his reputation for anti-Semitism? That, he explained, resulted from his linking of Jewish Gangster Meyer Lansky to Banker David Rockefeller, which in turn led to the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, to fugitive Financier Robert Vesco and to a cocaine connection that involved, among others, assorted Bulgarians...