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...letter headlined: "Where Were You, Mr. Huntley?" Predictably, annoyance at times gave way to acrimony. Jim Hoffman, an NBC time salesman who took over the llth Hour News on WNBC-TV walked into Hurley's, the broadcasters' favorite Sixth Avenue bar-and into an earful from striking Newswoman Liz Trotta. "Why are you being rough on me?" he asked her. "Well I'll tell you," huffed Trotta. "We just don't like amateurs." That opinion was Liz Trotta's, and did not necessarily reflect that of the nation's viewers...
...shallow Rio Grande in Texas' Big Bend National Park to dramatize her beautify-and see-the-U.S.A. campaigns. Everything came off more or less swimmingly as the ladybird watchers went over the side in search of closeups or simply fell off, like the stretch-pantsed newswoman who jammed her parasol at a ranger's eye as she went under. But the press got their waterlogged copy out, which was the whole idea anyway. As the White House's Bill Moyers cracked: "The New York Times has a picture on Page One -Mrs. Johnson looks like...
Shedding the Sullenness. Then, in 1964, prison officials passed out some copies of a book titled Terror in the Name of God, a study of the Doukhobors written by Vancouver Newswoman Simma Holt, 43. The carefully documented book thoroughly refuted the Freedomite contention that the Canadian government had murdered Leader Lordly, and placed the Freedomites in a revealing context as only one of many fanatical Russian religious sects...
...President headed upstairs, followed by the herd of reporters, who were admitted to the President's private, second-floor living quarters for drinks, caviar and cheese canapes. Exploring the place, one brunette newswoman peered around a half-open door, quickly retreated. "The President is in his underwear!" she cried. While changing clothes in his bedroom, Lyndon watched a special three-screen TV unit that allowed him to see all the major networks at once. "I feel very relaxed," he told a reporter invited in for a chat, "and even relieved...
...small gathering of cattle, pushed a button under the dashboard-and a cow horn bawled from beneath the gleaming hood. Heifers galloped toward the car while photographers clicked away and the President looked pleased. As he drove, Johnson talked about his cattle, once plunged into what one startled newswoman called "a very graphic description of the sex life of a bull...