![]() ![]() 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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