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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 12:34:35 +1000
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- Subject: Re: WORDS-L TP: Gilbert's Entertainment Question
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- >> "What award-winning ABC reporter later became executive producer of
- >> Australia's 'Sixty Minutes'?"
- >
- >Oh great! An Australia question, after everybody else was getting
- >really *easy* ones like the Arthur Miller and the Pillow Talk. So,
- >I have no idea at all, and I can't even remember who was ABC and who
- >was CBS and who was NBC. It's probably not Pee Wee Herman,
- >so I guess:
- > *ERIC SEREVEID*
- > ..................
- >I'll pretend this is right and say ===> GEOGRAPHY
- >.
- >--ggs
-
- Sorry Gilbert! It was Gerald Stone. I believe at one time he was a foreign
- correspondent and spent many years in the US... he has a discernible American
- accent or he may be a transplanted American.... there are a lot out here -
- especially in the media.
-
- Evelyn was almost correct ABC stands for Australian Broadcasting Commission.
-
- It is John or Ausbrook's turn next.... category please!
-
- Carolyn
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