Word: savitch
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Sympathy for Savitch...
...disappointed by your heavy-handed obituary on NBC Newscaster Jessica Savitch [Nov. 7]. It is unnecessary for us to know that disgruntled colleagues called her "Savage." She was a remarkable woman...
...Jessica Savitch had the credibility of Dan Rather and the class of Peter Jennings. Unfortunately, ambition is perceived as unattractive when possessed by a woman...
...Perhaps Savitch was beginning to sense that she might never be fully admitted to the magic circle: Rather, Brokaw, Jennings. But she did not relent. Last year the newscaster published a Pollyanna autobiography, Anchorwoman, that seemed like an extended press release. Says Barbara King, who helped her with the book: "She thought if she could renew the old glory, one of the networks would offer a bigger and better job." None did, but a new deal with NBC reportedly raised her salary to nearly $500,000; the network was considering her as a substitute on Today during Jane Pauley...
...apparently mistook a poorly marked towpath for the restaurant parking-lot exit. His rented station wagon tumbled some 15 feet into the water-and mud-filled Delaware Canal, coming to rest upside down. When the car was discovered four hours later, Fischbein was still strapped behind the wheel, and Savitch, along with her pet Siberian husky, lay in the back seat, drowned...