Word: vanocur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ratings, which gave NBC a bigger share of the audience than CBS and ABC combined-to the fine and tireless work of its bird-dog reporters. Chasing candidates in hotels and delegates on the floor, walkie-talkers like John Chancellor, Edwin Newman, Frank McGee, Bob Teague and Sander Vanocur always seemed to be in the most interesting places at the most interesting times, in moments of import as well as absurdity...
...half hours before the ballot, Vanocur accosted Scranton's floor manager, Pennsylvania's Senator Hugh Scott, and extracted from him remarks that were an almost overt admission that Scranton had already conceded defeat. Though reporters and delegates on the spot may have known it, the TV audience across the country did not-getting in addition a little episode of ineptitude on the part of Scott. Chancellor, on the other hand, made capital amusement out of his own arrest. Led out of the hall by a sergeant at arms for refusing to clear an aisle, he kept yattering into...
...swift and often ahead of the competition. At 7:35 p.m., for instance, NBC had 25% of the Connecticut senatorial vote, while CBS had only 15% and ABC 8%. But the commentary of NBC's public-affairs stars, from Huntley and Brinkley to Merrill Mueller, Frank McGee, Sander Vanocur, John Chancellor et al., lacked yeast. Brinkley may have had something when he said that the computer was likely to replace them...
...news staff meanwhile had crammed itself into a smaller hold on 26th Street, where there was hardly enough room for its glamorous Spielmeisters to comb their hair. Office boys bustled about dressed up like nightclub waiters. The rest of NBC's first team-including Regional Reporters Sander Vanocur, Frank Mc-Gee, Merrill Mueller and, especially, John Chancellor was equally strong...
...floor men, picking up remote shots of delegates until viewers expected to see the screen dissolve into a creepee-peepee interview with a delegate who had got lost in a Pasadena supermarket. NBC had its own dogged, creepee-peeping reporters on the floor-notably Martin Agronsky, Sander Vanocur, Herb Kaplow, Merrill Mueller, Frank McGee-but they never kept NBC from staying close to the main flow of developments...