Word: tom
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...called family atmosphere of TV's morning shows [Dec. 1] seems to be right out of Dallas, with staff members throwing darts at a picture of Rona Barrett, describing Jane Pauley's work as erratic and Tom Brokaw as frosty, and delighting when Muhammad Ali calls Hartman "the Great White Dope...
...disagree with your assessment of the Today staff. Jane Pauley is an excellent news reader and an adept interviewer who asks questions I like answered. Tom Brokaw is far from frosty. He's competent and likable...
While Smith belongs to Los Angeles' best and, in some cases, most restrictive social clubs, he has a wide range of friends. He was an early supporter of Los Angeles' mayor Tom Bradley, a Democrat and a black. Says Smith's law partner Paul Ziffren, a Democrat active in civil libertarian causes: "Smith has a strong and pure sense of noblesse oblige." Smith's second wife Jean is also heavily engaged in civic affairs; the attorney has four grown children from his first marriage, which ended in divorce. Smith is a fastidiously groomed, buttoned-down Establishment...
...great many TV news staffers have adopted it as an inviolable rule of tongue. Happy talk is not reprehensible, but should it be force-fed to an audience looking for the news? Surely not, no more than a sports fancier tuning in football should be obliged to endure Tom Brookshier and Pat Summerall happily going over their personal travel schedules...
...game psychologically," says co-captain Tom Mannix. "There's a big difference between going into vacation with a 4-3 record and starting it at 3-4. There's a big psychological difference between a three-game losing streak and a four-game...