NEWS LITE : NAMES IN THE NEWS GUMBEL SIGNS ON TO CBS NEWS SHOW.CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. on Thursday signed Bryant Gumbel, longtime co-host of NBC's ``Today,'' to anchor a prime-time news magazine on CBS beginning next fall, as well as syndicated shows over several seasons, people familiar with the situation said. Sources said Gumbel won't replace or be paired with anchorman Dan Rather on the flagship ``CBS Evening News'' - although Gumbel's signing to CBS for upward of $5 million, $1 million more than his NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. paycheck, also places Gumbel, 49, in position to succeed 65-year-old Rather as anchor when he retires. In addition to CBS, ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. , CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. , and Fox also wooed Gumbel; so did NBC, which has kept Gumbel on its payroll without assignment ever since he signed off ``Today'' Jan. 3 in a tearfully sentimental farewell. Guest stars come out for episode of `Ellen' Talk about a coming-out party! The episode of ``Ellen'' in which Ellen DeGeneres' alter ego A doctrine used by the courts to ignore the corporate status of a group of stockholders, officers, and directors of a corporation in reference to their limited liability so that they may be held personally liable for their actions when they have acted fraudulently or unjustly or when comes out as a lesbian is being stacked with more stars than a remake of ``The Towering Inferno.'' Big names like Oprah Winfrey, who plays Ellen's therapist; Laura Dern, Ellen's dream girl; and singers Melissa Etheridge and k.d. lang are set to appear. Now, make way for Demi Moore and Gina Gershon (``Showgirls,'' ``Bound''). Moore and Gershon were in L.A. Thursday shooting scenes. The groundbreaking show, titled ``The Puppy Episode,'' airs April 30 on ABC. Schwarzenegger's old agents get terminated It's ``hasta la vista, baby,'' to Arnold Schwarzenegger's old agents. The pumped-up action star has signed with the William Morris Agency Founded in 1898, the William Morris Agency is the largest diversified talent and literary agency in the world, with offices in New York City, Beverly Hills, Nashville, Miami, London, and Shanghai. after 15 years with International Creative Management. ``After careful consideration over a number of weeks I determined that William Morris is best equipped to handle my many areas of involvement, not only in the motion picture arena, but also in business, sports-related and charitable activities,'' Schwarzenegger said in a statement Thursday. Country music stars to stage FloodFest Billy Ray Cyrus, the Oak Ridge Boys and other country stars will be singing for supper - and for clothes and lodging, too, for flood victims. John Michael Montgomery John Michael Montgomery (born January 20, 1965 in Danville, Kentucky[1]) is an American country music singer-songwriter. Biography Born Jan. 20, 1965, in Danville, Ky. and the Kentucky Headhunters also will perform at a benefit concert April 6. The show, dubbed FloodFest '97, is expected to raise $250,000 for the American Red Cross American Red Cross: see Red Cross. . Everyone connected to the event is volunteering his or her services, including concert promoter David Snowden, who proposed the benefit. That means all the money will go to disaster relief - meals, shelter and other help - in Kentucky and southern Indiana. The Red Cross, which is operating five shelters and seven service centers, has served more than 51,000 meals in the Louisville area since the flooding began nearly two weeks ago. Great Dane a world-class mom - litter-ally Susan Burbridge knew that her 4-year-old Great Dane named Endeavor was expecting a large litter of puppies, but neither she nor her veterinarian veterinarian /vet·er·i·nar·i·an/ (vet?er-i-nar´e-an) a person trained and authorized to practice veterinary medicine and surgery; a doctor of veterinary medicine. vet·er·i·nar·i·an n. knew just how many. ``At the vet's office they'd been calling her Elsie the cow Elsie the Cow is the advertising mascot of the Borden Company, now primarily used to promote the Dairy Farmers of America's Borden cheese products. Borden was named after Gail Borden, Jr. for a week,'' Burbridge said. ``She was really huge.'' This week, everyone understood why - the overdue mom delivered 17 puppies into the world. The number isn't a record but is unusual. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the record number of pups born in one litter is 23. The first to set that record was an American foxhound in 1944. It was tied by a St. Bernard in 1975 and a Great Dane in 1987. Fifteen in Endeavor's litter survived. One puppy was stillborn stillborn /still·born/ (-born) born dead. still·born adj. Dead at birth. stillborn, n an infant who is born dead. stillborn born dead. , and another, which emerged some 12 hours after the first, also died. ``It's so sad to lose any of them,'' said Burbridge, who has been breeding Great Danes for six years. ``They're in our pet cemetery now.'' Burbridge and her husband, Russ, who own Calypso Calypso, in Greek mythology Calypso (kəlĭp`sō), nymph, daughter of Atlas, in Homer's Odyssey. She lived on the island of Ogygia and there entertained Odysseus for seven years. Danes in Orange City, Fla., are thrilled with the canine crop produced by Endeavor, who was named after the space shuttle, and the father, Diamond Rio. ``We've never had anything this big before,'' Burbridge said of the family's seventh litter. ``We usually have from six to nine pups, and we have had as many as 13.'' Larger-breed dogs tend to have more in their litters, a University of Florida University of Florida is the third-largest university in the United States, with 50,912 students (as of Fall 2006) and has the eighth-largest budget (nearly $1.9 billion per year). UF is home to 16 colleges and more than 150 research centers and institutes. professor said. ``We don't know if the size of the dogs is related to the number of eggs released or not; but we do know that larger dogs do have larger litters,'' said Victor Shille, professor of reproduction studies at the university's College of Veterinary Medicine. Shille said it's unusual that so many of Endeavor's puppies survived. ``Often the placenta becomes detached from the womb and many of the last ones are stillborn,'' he said. Because of Endeavor's enormous size, Burbridge slept next to the mom-to-be in a wood-frame box that Russ built as a birthing bed. ``I started sleeping in the box with her the day before she was due (March 7),'' Burbridge said, stroking mama dog's head. Endeavor's vet, Dr. Kelley Bradford, was worried. ``We were very concerned because of her size,'' Bradford said Friday. ``I was afraid I might have to do a Caesarean section.'' On Monday - after Burbridge and Endeavor had spent four nights in the box - they were rewarded for their efforts. The puppies, which each weighed between three-quarters of a pound and 1 pound at birth, now spend most of their day jockeying for a space at mom's milk bar. They also receive numerous daily bottle feedings of goat's milk. Shille said the additional food is a must: ``They're going to have to do some supplemental feeding because she just doesn't have that many faucets.'' Holdup jitters jitters 'Butterflies' Psychology An episode of nervousness or anxiety that often precedes a public event; jitters is a type of performance anxiety which may affect actors in a stage production–stage fright or soloist musicians; it may respond to anxiolytics Armored car sparks false bank alarm A professor from Switzerland gave officers a few anxious moments Friday when he called to report a bank robbery in progress in Westwood. The ``robbers'' turned out to be armed guards on the job, a police spokesman said. ``He had never seen a Brinks truck before,'' said Sgt. Walt Strickel of the Lo`s Angeles Police Department's West Los Angeles
The drama that wasn't began about 4:25 a.m., when police received a telephone call from a man reporting a robbery in progress at a bank at UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX , involving three men with rifles, Strickel said. Officers were sent to investigate the report. A check with campus police helped officers determine that there was no such bank branch, although there are ATMs on campus, the sergeant said. Officers who contacted the professor at a pay phone near the university determined that the ``robbers'' he saw were armed guards making a stop at a bank close to the university, the sergeant said. ``All is OK,'' Strickel said, ``there is no 211 (robbery).'' CAPTION(S): 3 Photos Photo: (1) GUMBEL (2) SCHWARZENEGGER (3) Smiling eyes for the Irish Analicia Rogel, 4, takes time off from her arts and crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts. to slurp a bit of her green milkshake at Woodcrest Preschool in Tarzana on Friday. In addition to paper hats and green food, the school's activities in anticipation of St. Patrick's Day also included a shamrock hunt. Shaun Dyer/Special to the Daily News |
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