Word: quinn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sally Quinn, in a CBS News publicity release
Prim and tailored in a plain striped blouse, she bit her lip nervously and read the news off the TelePrompTer in an arid monotone. "Wouldn't you know the first day I come on television I start out with a sore throat and a fever?" Sally Quinn apologized to viewers. (Two hours before air time she had been in the hospital.) "Well, a fever is all right as long as it doesn't make you delirious," sympathized CBS Correspondent Hughes Rudd. "Actually there have been a lot of people on television who were delirious-they're usually...
Unfortunately, Quinn's debut last week on the revamped CBS Morning News was not delirious in any sense. The show's former anchor men, the no-nonsense team of John Hart and Nelson Benton, had failed to attract a big enough audience compared with NBC's 22-year-old juggernaut of the morning schedule, the Today Show (an estimated 1.7 million viewers v. 5.2 million). In an effort to pep up the ratings, the network created a more relaxed format, with more room for ad-libbing...
Pert, occasionally impertinent Newswoman Sally Quinn, 32, this week begins squaring off against NBC's Barbara Walters each morning on CBS-TV. During rehearsals leading up to the debut, she was alternately laughing hysterically and feeling "frozen with terror." Sally shares an apartment with her longtime boy friend, Warren Hoge, city editor of the New York Post, but their schedules leave them few free hours together-she works from 1 a.m. till noon, he from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. When Sally moved to Manhattan, her colleagues at the Washington Post, where she had been a reporter...
...phony shortage to drive them out of business by shutting off their supplies. That conclusion was supported by six state attorneys general -from Massachusetts, North Carolina, Florida, New York, Connecticut and Michigan-who testified at a Senate hearing last week. The gasoline shortage, said Massachusetts Attorney General Robert Quinn, is "a means of squeezing the little guy out of the market." In some cases, asserted his Connecticut counterpart, Robert Killian, "the majors are taking over the choice locations, putting up giant 20-pump stations with 24-hr, service and are replacing the small dealers...