Word: savitch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...books chronicle the tragic life and times of Anchorwoman Jessica Savitch. -- Columnist Carl Rowan takes a shot in the dark...
...Jessica Savitch? Millions of TV viewers knew her as the glamorous and authoritative NBC News anchor who was a role model for scores of aspiring women journalists. To her colleagues on the set, however, she was an anorexic, acne-scarred prima donna who would throw tantrums over the slightest inconvenience or reject a glass of water because it was too warm. And to those who claimed to know her best, she was a vivacious and vulnerable woman who became so debilitated by insecurity and drug abuse that she could barely function without a nursemaid. When Savitch's end finally came...
...nearly five years later, Savitch's troubled life is being resurrected in two searing biographies: Almost Golden by Gwenda Blair, a veteran magazine writer, and Golden Girl by Author Alanna Nash. The books tell many of the same painful stories, but while Nash writes a cautionary tale about personal ambition gone amuck, Blair sets Savitch's rise and fall against the larger backdrop of television-news history. Ultimately, neither writer completely succeeds in conveying what made Savitch run, perhaps because her personal demons were so well masked...
First Period--1, P, Yung Lie (Katherine Savitch, Eloise Clark) 5:52; 2, H, Johanna Neilson (Karen Carney...
...Tigers snagged an early first goal at 5:52 of the first period. Princeton's Katherine Savitch took a slapshot from the point which White blocked, but Tiger Yung Lie slipped the puck into the net on the rebound...