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...anchor men on the KABC-TV news in Los Angeles were so charming that more than 10,000 letters came in-most of them saying things like "Please send me John Schubeck in a plain brown wrapper." Impressed, the station decided to do virtually that. It ran a contest, with the prize being not only Schubeck but also Fellow Newscaster Joseph Benti, a staff of technicians, a truckload of cameras and cables, and all the paraphernalia needed to deliver a newscast straight from the winner's own home...
Winner Linda Jensen, 17, may have been luckier than the rest of KABC-TV's audience. With the entire six-member Jensen family and a five-man news team squeezed onto two sofas, the personable Schubeck and Benti last week introduced their hosts, then gave the news from the Jensen living room. The weather report originated from the kitchen area, and the sports from the dining room between mouthfuls of garbanzos and over the noise of firecrackers being set off outside by envious neighbors. Said Commentator Ralph Story, taking an oblique crack at the errant aim of newspaper delivery...
...were on the front page of the next morning's New York Times. Primo has developed one new star, Sportscaster Jim Bouton, the apostate pitcher. He has also shown enterprise in covering late-evening feature stories. The WABC drama and film critic, however, is a lightweight named John Schubeck, who gets regularly outclassed by WNBC's Edwin Newman. Television being television, Schubeck is aided by his looks: "Women lose their gourd over John," explains Primo...
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