Word: newsrooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just sitting in the newsroom minding my own business when Freddie Hubbard walked over to my typewriter. FREDDIE HUBBARD--one of the greatest trumpeters alive. My God, and he's staying at Leverett House all week...
...Washington Post played the formal white-tie dinner for the Shah of Iran as if Jackie Kennedy had given it. Even Reporter Sally Quinn, late of CBS and a kind of Catherine the Great of the Post newsroom, took enthusiastic notice in a lengthy and detailed article on the Shah's interlude in Ford's Washington. And one White House aide said with some pride that "the power brokers damned near broke down the White House door trying to get invitations to the Ford dinner...
...responses, but no jobs," she reports. "The school should let people know what they are in for." J-school deans insist that students who are willing to specialize in such subjects as science and economics or to forgo a high-salaried debut in a big-city newsroom will have little trouble finding work. "If they want to take a job in a small town in Wyoming at $90 a week, there's no problem," says Donald Wright, an assistant professor at Texas...
...instinct was infallible, his supervision minimal. Left to their own devices, the collaborators mixed their unique amalgam of chance and choice. Recalls Brooks: "We decided that a television station would be a perfect locale for Mary Tyler Moore because of the strong supporting characters you find in any newsroom." Adds Burns: "We chose Minnesota when one of the writers began talking about the strengths and weaknesses of the Vikings...
...SAND in FRIENDS and LOVERS (CBS, Saturday, 8:30 p.m. E.D.T.) exemplifies another virtue of the Moore style, which is to get people out of bland Brady Bunch suburban housing and show them working at jobs that are odd and interesting. Having Moore herself work in a local TV newsroom was a stroke of genius, since the setting provides endless possibilities for novel situations; similarly, it is a relief that Rhoda's new boy friend is not an ad man or an architect, but in the wrecking and salvage business. As for Sand, he lives in a jumbled...