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Almost Golden by Gwenda Blair
1988
Simon and Schuster
PAGEBAD TEXTCORRECTION
40 & 46Although Paley was interested in television... [versus] Murrow's boss, CBS president William Paley, was less enchanted.[first mention of figure with last name only prior to full introduction of name and position]
57Lucy the Elelphant, a huge gray metal behemoth built on a vacant lot on Atlantic Avenue as a gimmick to promote real-estate sales in the 1940s.[wooden elephant built in the 1880s]
64 & 90Barry, now a successful cosmetic surgeon in San Antonio, was not connected to WOND... [also] He later became a successful cosmetic surgeon in San Antonio.[redundancy]
116 & 117...and KTRK, the ABC station... [also] ...KTRK-TV, the ABC affiliate.[redundancy]
162 & 190Oh, can we stop and take a look at that overpass? [versus] If we hadn't stopped [on the highway] at that overlook, I wouldn't have to be here.[consistency]
206 & 212 & 255WMAQ, the NBC-owned station in Chicago [also] WMAQ, the NBC O&O in Chicago [also] WMAQ, the NBC O&O in Chicago...[redundancy]
231...by the late 1970s, over seven hundred radio and television reporters wre assigned there.were
264...working at WNBC, the NBC O&O on the seventh floor at 30 Rock. [also] ...working for WNBC, the network's flagship O&O, in 30 Rock.[redundancy]
279 Robert Wills Rischel, Phil Donahue [not in index]
287 Leslie Blanchard Text[not in index]
288...sister of Donald Payne... [versus] ...colleague of Don Payne...[inconsistency]
291 Floyd Abrams, Cahill Pfeiffer [not in index]
297...a Frankenstein monsterFrankenstein's
298 Princes Caroline [not in index]
299At times she would seem to revert back to being an adolescent...[ ] [redundancy]
302 John Crow, Brian Doyle [not in index]
305 Roberto Calvi [not in index]
310 Bob Woodward, John Belushi, Spielberg [not in index] [no first name for Spielberg]
311 Glenn Close, George S. Parker [not in index]
312 Rose Smith, Woody Allen, Andy Warhol, Cheryl Tiegs, George Steinbrenner, Howard Stern [not in index]
316 Ginger Rogers [not in index]
317 Patrice Munsel [not in index]
336 Jacob Javits, Nelson Rockefeller [not in index]
337 Ted Kheel, Sam LeFrak, Bob Price, Roger Penske, Richard Clurman [not in index]
338 Peter Sellers [not in index]
340 Anthony Quinn [not in index]
343 Norman Vincent Peale [not in index]
344 Maurice Chevalier [not in index]
348Beatty, Warrent, 298, 309, 318-21 318, 321
348Bradley, Ed, 107-8, 122, 125, 257, 267, 347346
348Busch, Tony, 88-90, 93, 98, 138, 254 347346
349Crim, Mort, 148, 150, 160-62, 168-174, 179, 180, 183, 186-87, 197, 210, 215, 254, 286, 288n, 341, 347 346-47
349Glass, Nancy, 330339
352Wallace, Mike, [ ] 279178,

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