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Article: BRINKLEY STEPS BACK : NEWSMAN'S TRADEMARK SKEPTICISM DEFINED LONG CAREER IN WASHINGTON.(L.A.LIFE)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- November 5, 1996
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Byline: Warren Berger The New York Times
On a recent morning at his quiet office in the Washington bureau of ABC News, David Brinkley looked and sounded - as he often does on his Sunday-morning program, ``This Week With David Brinkley'' - like a man who had been awakened too early.
With his heavy-lidded eyes and laconic, halting manner of speaking, which distinguished him when he was a co-host of the groundbreaking ``Huntley-Brinkley Report'' in the 1950s and 1960s, Brinkley has always seemed unusually sedate for a television newsman.
Now, at the age of 76, he seems more so: His shoulders slouch a bit, his soft-featured face is smaller and more ...