The Place to Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News Book

Prologue     xi
The Glory Years     1
Gimme Rewrite     5
Pipe Poeus     11
Home to Stay     18
You'll Be Local the Rest of Your Life     30
Take Two, Take Three     34
Old Four Fingers     40
Mister Small     44
The Desk     51
The Front Row     55
The Back Row     76
The Four Rules of Sevareid     86
Wolves on the Prowl     93
Wanted by the FBI     96
Nothing Could Be Finer     101
"The Hunkies Have Run Amok"     104
The Useful Pest     108
The March on Washington     115
The Rumormonger     119
Where Were You When...?     126
"A Sad, Sorry Mess"     134
"What Do We Do Now, Dick?"     141
"Will You Wave, Sir?"     161
The Minnesota Twins     168
Mister Ev, the Talking Horse     174
"Not While I'm Around"     182
"Of Course, It's a Great Body"     190
"Who the Hell Is Alexander Kendrick?"     200
"How about Bobbsie?"     208
"I Don't Know. I Don't Know"     218
Too Deep a Hole     226
"Ma'am, I've Been Hit, Too"     230
"Nixon's the One What?"     237
Hitting Our Stride     243
The Hand That Feeds You     253
Yes, No, and Just a Little Bit     260
The Stakeout Queens     275
"I Think I Got It-I Hope I Got It"     281
"Stand by for a Ram"     284
"We Could Have Done Better"     293
Nattering Nabobs     303
The Legal Eagles     307
"Voices from Hell"     318
At Noon Tomorrow     324
Pancake     334
Pike's Peek     338
Uncle Walter     343
Teddy     348
"A Compelling Mystique"     361
"We're Going with Rather"     369
The Place to Be     376
Where Are They Now?     379
Acknowledgments     385
Bibliography     389
Notes     391
Index     401
Author Biography     415