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With 9000 Cornellians shouting "Good-bye, Harvard" and the score already 34-14, Cornell's own third-stringer pours salt in the Crimson wounds with a 79-yard touchdown pass in the final minute...
...shows that have survived in name may lose its spirit of quality that made them popular. Both the daily news shows have lost both funding and employees staffers agree that the quality has dropped, particularly during the height of uncertainty about the station's future last month. One stringer tells of a producer who gets angry when he brings in story ideas, because the station can't afford to buy them. Other stringers have stopped submitting pieces because the network still owes them backpay. Where NPR once made extensive use of its satellite system to transmit live pieces from Argentina...
...professional life of a network TV news anchor is too hectic to be called solitary, too lucrative to qualify as nasty or brutish, but often short: Walter Cronkite of CBS has been the only first-stringer at any network to hold the job to retirement age. Last week the industry shook its kaleidoscope once again. What seemed to be emerging, by week's end, was a pattern that American viewers have hardly ever seen: head-to-head, half-hour competition among solo anchors at all three commercial networks...
Pujols narrowed it to 10-9 2:55 into the fourth quarter. And with Princeton's top two goalies injured. Harvard put good pressure on third-stringer. Tim Krongrad down the stretch. Not an especially graceful goaltender, several of his 12 saves were shots that bounced off his chest. But he did the job, and the three goals in the final minutes were all in the Crimson...
...when House graduated from the University of Texas, she went to Europe for the summer without any plans for a job when she got back. As an undergraduate she had been the campus "stringer" for Newsweek, in addition to writing for the university daily. When she got back, she got in touch with Newsweek and was told that they didn't hire any reporters straight out of college, unless they wanted to work in the research department. They would be glad to hire her, but the editor warned that the research department was often a dead...