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...Howard K. Smith had been the preferred network commentator in the White House, but it was Smith, rather than CBS's Eric Sevareid or NBC'S David Brinkley, who called for Nixon's removal last fall. The Detroit News is a conservative bastion, and its editor Martin Hayden had been on friendly personal terms with Nixon for 25 years; last November the News said Nixon could best serve the nation by resigning. Other papers and editors previously more or less partial to the President?including the Denver Post, Chicago Tribune, Kansas City Times, Omaha World-Herald and William Randolph Hearst...
...squirts who formed the core of the Mets' support bellow: "Ay! Gee! Ay! Gee!" The Mets traded him because he was supposed to be a troublemaker. He and his roommate, Cleon Jones, were supposed to be fomenting revolution. This is the sort of analysis you expect from Eric Sevareid. Sure enough, Mrs. Joan Payson, who owns the Mets, turned out to be a big contributor to the Committee to Re-elect. Tom Seaver and Ed Kranepool and so on used to appear on Sesame Street about once a week, but still...what about the Cambodian kids...
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY Eric Sevareid, Mass Comm. D., journal ist and television commentator...
Speaking hours after Agnew resigned, NBC'S David Brinkley-long a favorite Agnew target-described Agnew returning to Baltimore as "a tragic and almost pathetic figure." A night later, CBS'S Eric Sevareid paraphrased an English proverb to suggest that Agnew's sins dimmed in comparison with those of the Watergate malefactors: "Agnew was stealing the goose from off the common, while they were trying to steal the common from the goose...
...Sticks and Bones in response to similar sentiment (TIME, March 19). The latest move prompted some grumbling among CBS correspondents. Although they can still discuss the content of the President's speeches, they will have to do so on the network's regular news programs. But Eric Sevareid, the network's dean of instant analysis, welcomed the change, saying that he had "always been a little uncomfortable" with off-the-cuff punditry. For viewers who like being told what they have just been told, NBC and ABC will continue to comment immediately on presidential speeches whenever they...