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...left journalism. As Hildy Johnson, not-so-mild-mannered reporter for the Chicago Herald-Examiner, he fights a never-ending battle to prevent truth from getting in the way of a good story. "It's really just a coincidence that I am playing a lot of reporters," the newshound insisted before an opening-night performance that was-what else?-more powerful than a locomotive...
...Rather, 48, the intrepid newshound of CBS's 60 Minutes, had three offers he couldn't refuse. ABC, NBC and his own CBS each sought to make him its evening-news anchorman. Each asked him to help shape its newscast. And each, before the bidding was over, had offered a staggering reward if he would just sign up: $8 million spread over five years...
...Newshound as sex symbol...
Credit for TIME'S lively use of graphics is shared by Art Director David Merrill and Picture Editor John Durniak. Newshound Durniak brings his tireless enthusiasm 15 hours a day to half a dozen tasks at once: arguing for more "cuts" in the magazine, urging extensive coverage of pictorially rich news events, phoning photographers halfway round the world to tell them that their exposure meters need adjustment. "Journalism starts with visual observation," Durniak says. "The eye is the mother of the brain...
...Sense? Lisa operates professionally with all the canvasbacked insensitivity of the trained newshound, but personally she is as sensitive as a gouty toe. She suspects darkly that newsmen want to write her off as a pushy Clairol blonde who forges forward by making more sex than sense, and because she was once an actress in TV's daytime serial The Edge of Night. But she insists that she was a student of politics long before she began to act, cites articles she contributed to liberal magazines like Progressive World when she was 22, and notes that...