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Emphasizing that America needs to protect its "precious shield" of freedom of the press, Eric Sevareid, consultant and Senior Broadcaster for CBS News, spoke before an audience of 200 last night at the Kennedy School of Government's Institute of Politics Forum...
...John Chancellor, no longer at the anchorman's desk but sitting to one side, talks with pictures and maps, and seems happier as a commentator than as a news reader. Temperamentally, he has always been an explainer. These appearances are a long way from the days of Eric Sevareid, looking handsomely lugubrious and furrowed, as he made a few rueful but neutral remarks about events...
With Mudd in Washington and Brokaw in New York, Chancellor will occupy himself with special projects and add an Eric Sevareid-style commentary to the news several times a week beginning next April. NBC has also talked about extending the Nightly News to an hour, giving Brokaw the time and latitude to produce special reports in addition to his anchor duties. How much control Brokaw and Mudd will exert over editorial content, however, is still up in the air in NBC's front office. Brokaw is optimistic: "We're not there just to read the news...
MARRIED. Eric Sevareid, 66, silver-haired, golden-voiced commentator who retired from the CBS Evening News in 1977; and Suzanne St. Pierre, 42, a Washington producer for the station's 60 Minutes program; he for the third time and she for the second; in Worcester, Mass...
Network. This film grabbed three Oscars for best actor, best actress and best screenplay in 1976, but it wasn't much of a year. The best thing about this movie about the shenanigans behind the evening news at UBS is commentator Peter Finch's letter-perfect imitation of Eric Sevareid. But once you get over your amusement at that stentorian phrasing you find nothing. This film is as sterile as a 30-second clip of Amy Carter walking to her integrated school. Faye Dunaway won her Oscar for Chinatown, not this lemon. Peter Finch is dead...