Word: utley
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Dates: during 1974-1974
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...long last NBC has ended its great host hunt to replace the late Frank McGee on Today (TIME, July 15). After Front Runners Tom Brokaw and Garrick Utley had made it clear that they would not be caught feeding dog food to a dalmatian before breakfast, the network found a more easygoing newsman...
...Utley could be a sentimental family favorite: he is the son of NBC Chicago Correspondent Clifton Utley and former NBC Reporter Frayn Utley. He is also an experienced newsman. Utley's relaxed, occasionally eloquent style apparently appealed to Today watchers. His mail is running 1,010 pro, only...
...younger audience," says Executive Producer Stuart Schulberg), four of the eight are over 40. The list: Los Angeles Reporter Jess Marlow, 44; Washington Correspondent Douglas Kiker, 44; Today's Washington editor Bill Monroe, 53; and that perennial Today substitute and network newsman, Edwin Newman, 55; London Correspondent Garrick Utley, 34; New York Anchor Man Jim Hartz, 34; Tomorrow Host Tom Snyder, 38; and White House Correspondent Tom Brokaw...
Currently top two in the game of musical co-hosts are Utley and Brokaw...
...Both Utley and Brokaw say they enjoyed doing the show, liked the challenge of the spontaneous format. Both also stick at reading commercials. "I question," says Utley, "whether a reporter does not lose his journalistic virginity, by doing commercials. And can you recover that virginity later?" Brokaw does not question. "I find doing commercials repulsive," he states. "If that is a job requirement, it would not be negotiable with...