Word: risers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rather, Tom Brokaw and PBS's Robert MacNeil and courted almost every other news star in the business. Signing Brinkley permits Arledge to go ahead with the new Sunday-morning show-scheduled to air from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. E.S.T.-providing an alternative to early-riser Charles Kuralt on CBS. On Friday night, incredulous ABC News staffers were still recovering from the shock waves. Said one: "I do not know why NBC couldn't find a way to accommodate him. He is the most eminent newsman." Many of Brinkley's colleagues at NBC bitterly...
...onstage. He then demands that, barring illness or death, everyone stay for the last curtain call; there is no rude rushing for the exits as the actors are taking their bows, a bad but common practice in most other theaters. When he was younger, Price once pushed an early riser back into his seat; he almost got a black eye in return. Now he merely points to such people, imperiously commanding them to sit down from a distance. Those occasions are now rare, however, and Price often drives in from his home across the river to say goodbye to audiences...