Word: willard
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...pulled into the yard Reagan glanced toward his pond. It used to be a mudhole, and Reagan and his closest friend, Willard Barnett, whom he calls Barney, got a black plastic Liner laid across the bottom. Barney, 67, is a rugged, silver-haired man who used to drive for Reagan when he was Governor and is now like a brother. The pond these days is 11 ft. deep and 100 ft. long, and Reagan calls it Lake Lucky...
...Willard Scott is the saving grace of Today? His effect is more like pouring corn syrup over a previously digestible bacon-and-eggs breakfast. The freshest moment I've heard on the show occurred when Mariette Hartley told Willard to go and eat his flower...
That longstanding mutual admiration is a prime reason why the President-elect last week named Caspar Willard Weinberger, 63, to be Secretary of Defense. To some officials in Washington, "Cap the Knife" seemed an odd choice. The expenditure-cutting ax he wielded so zestfully first for Reagan in California and then for Nixon in Washington may gather some dust at the Pentagon, where Reagan plans a huge military buildup. Moreover, Weinberger's firsthand knowledge of weapons and military strategy apparently is confined to whatever he picked up poring over Defense Department budgets eight to ten years ago; his current...
...Manhattan skyline. Brokaw, 40, has something of the manner of a friendly corporate lawyer. The prim and manicured Pauley, 30, could easily be his law school trainee, so efficient does she seem. Fortunately, what they lack in sparkle is made up for by Today's new weatherman, Willard Scott, 46, a good old Virginia boy who has a more engaging grin than anyone else has had since Arthur Godfrey left TV 21 years...
...best guess for the program's recent rise in the ratings, however, is that it has finally found a replacement for J. Fred Muggs: Weatherman Willard Scott. "Willard is the first break the show has had in a long time," says one Today veteran. "He sincerely loves people and that shows through. He may be corny, but he makes the show personal by touching people...