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...JANE PAULEY, 26, worked for less than four years at local stations in Indianapolis and Chicago before being chosen last fall as leading lady of NBC's Today show (annual salary: more than $125,000). "I've been blessed with the good fortune of my sex from the beginning." she says of her rapid rise. Though some TV critics have clucked over her dearth of experience, Pauley has demonstrated precocious poise in her Today interviews and ad libs. She shares the show's food features and other "women's" stories with Host Tom Brokaw...
MARGARET OSMER, 38, unlike Pauley and other newcomers, made it the hard way. A Cornell graduate, she broke into television in 1961 as a researcher in the CBS legal department, spent seven years as a CBS reporter at the U.N. and two as a producer-reporter for ABC'S weekly Reasoner Report before becoming a newsreader on the network's Good Morning, America show a year and a half ago. She makes $50,000 a year, "and that's low compared to men who've had this job." Being a woman helps at first, Osmer believes...
...technical difficulties beyond NBC's control, however, Pauley was not on hand Monday to serve Americans their morning cup of bad news. Neither NBC nor Pauley will say what went bump in the dawn. For weeks she had clearly been the favorite for the job (TIME, Sept. 13), and NBC had already agreed that she would not have to do commercials, which Walters...
...Pauley, the talk went, just might have been holding out for more money after she heard what NBC last week offered Kelly Lange, the barmy blonde weather girl at the network's Los Angeles station and an also-ran for the Today job. What actually happened, however, was that NBC officials went into a lather when they learned that Lange was being lured by the ABC body-snatchers who had stolen Walters from them. The network's brass hurriedly rushed into prolonged negotiations and promised to double Lange's salary, to $200,000, and give...
Aunt Martha. At week's end NBC finally came up with a six-figure package that may not make her as rich as Walters, but certainly would give her a good shove toward that goal. Pauley accepted, and the network announced that she would take up her duties Oct. 11. Tom Brokaw was elated: "She's bright and enterprising and engaging, and she just happens to be pretty." Barbara Walters was gracious: "It's unfair to be called the next Barbara Walters. I hope she'll be herself." Jane Pauley was. Said...