![]() ![]() Dobyns and Ellerbee alternated closing the show, but both signed off with the phrase "And so it goes." In 1982, Ellerbee was again teamed with Dobyns (and later Bill Schechner) on NBC News Overnight, and again, the anchors ended each broadcast with a short, usually wry commentary, signing off with "And so it goes," (which later became the title of Ellerbee’s first book). In 1974, Ellerbee moved to NBC News, where she spent four years covering national politics before joining Lloyd Dobyns as co-anchor and writer of the weekly prime-time news magazine, Weekend. Within a year, she was recruited by New York's WCBS-TV as the “hard news” reporter for its 11pm newscast. “I was fired,” says Ellerbee, “only because the AP lawyers told my bosses they couldn’t shoot me, which they all thought was a better idea.” The letter brought her to the attention of the News Director of the Houston CBS television affiliate KHOU, who told her she “wrote funny,” and hired her in January 1973. ![]() In 1972, Ellerbee was hired as a reporter by the Dallas bureau of the Associated Press, but was fired after writing a chatty personal letter on the AP's word processors and then accidentally sending the letter out on the national newswire. ![]()
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These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() The casualties were the great tragedy of the war in emancipation lay its great virtue.Īmericans like their tragedies to have happy endings, William Dean Howells once quipped, likely not thinking, at least not consciously, of the terrible slaughter he had avoided by being posted to Venice as US Consul during the war. ![]() But-no small thing-as a result of that war, slavery, once euphemistically called the “peculiar institution,” was abolished. By 1865 the war had taken the lives of at least 620,000 people, not counting the incalculable number of those who tended the wounded and died from typhoid or sheer exhaustion, or of those who stayed at home and read, day after day, the casualty lists that broke their hearts. ![]() ![]() Read moreĪside from multi-author anthologies, not too many short story collections are being pubbed these days, especially in genre. ![]() The first collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill, 20th Century Ghosts is an inventive and chilling compendium that established this award-winning, critically acclaimed author as “a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction” ( Washington Post). Nolan knows but can never tell what really happened in the summer of '77, when his idiot savant younger brother built a vast cardboard fort with secret doors leading into other worlds. 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