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...sunrise sweepstakes began last May after Walters announced her change of venue. NBC Vice Presidents Richard Fischer and Robert Mulholland screened some 150 tapes of local and network newswomen. Since July a dozen candidates have been brought to New York for interviews or live auditions, and three have reached the finals: Pauley, 25, who anchors the 5 o'clock news on NBC's Chicago affiliate; Consumer Expert Betty Furness, 60, who took the job provisionally when Walters left and completed her tryout last Friday; and Cassie Mackin, 38, a crack NBC Washington correspondent. After Mackin's final...
...dentists, 3.5%, is little higher now than in 1910. The only professional category in which the CEA found a steady and large increase is editors and reporters. In 1970 women made up 41% of that category, v. 25% in 1940. With much reason, even this figure is questioned by newswomen, and the CEA has no separate breakdown of the number of editors...
...away, you're all too young for me, and you don't let me get on with my business," said Greek Shipping Tycoon Aristotle Onassis, 66, to a clutch of newswomen in Teheran, as he arrived for some oil talks with the Shah. But Jacqueline Onassis, 42, doing her sightseeing and shopping thing, answered without hesitation when a woman reporter asked her if she is the same sort of person today as when she was married to President Kennedy. "I am today what I was yesterday and, with luck, will be tomorrow," she replied. "I am a woman...
...flying feline fur blurred a few facts. Far from being harassed by hordes of U.S. newswomen, the Princess was regularly accompanied by a pool of only six reporters, two of them British. True, the U.S. pool members included U.P.I.'s Helen Thomas and A.P.'s Frances Lewine, among the fiercest rivals in the entire Washington press corps. But both, by their normal standards, were considerably subdued in the royal presence. Miss Thomas asked Anne only one question: how she liked the view at the Washington Monument. When the Princess frostily replied, "I do not give interviews," Miss Thomas...
While Brigade members wanted to talk about how impressed they were with the Cuban economic, medical, and educational systems, the newsmen and newswomen were more interested in their views on revolution and similar conduct in the United States...