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The Bakersfield Californian from Bakersfield, California • Page 48

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GtypMrrafalftCSaHfuntian Thur May 26, 1977 49 I I 5 Sevareid eyes rocking chair, fishing rod LOS ANGLELES(AP) Eric Sevareid, CBS News' granite-faced pundit-in-residence, will soon hang up his thinking cap and reach for his fishing rod. Never one who would be mistaken for a standup comedian, Sevareid nevertheless revealed a wryly humorous side Tuesday in a farewell talk before a meeting of owners and officials of CBS-TV affiliates. Looking around the huge circus tent CBS had erected for a luncheon, he said, "As we walked in here my good friend (CBS News executive) Bill Small said 'I always knew you'd end up a Sevareid will deliver the last of his pithy commentaries on the CBS Evening News Nov. 30 when he reaches tory retirement age of 65. Sevareid was born in Velva, N.D., Nov.

26,1912. "Someone asked me what I'd do after 45 years of daily deadlines," he said. "I have two contrasting temptations. One is to sit in a rocking chair for two weeks, after which I will slowly begin rocking. "The other is to go fishing.

Charlie Brown may say that happiness is a warm puppy, but I can tell you that happiness is a cold trout." Sevareid said that when he joined CBS News in London in 1939 Edward R. Murrow asked him how old he was. "I said I was 26. but Murrow said that sounded too young and would put me down as 29. He said he would fix it on the records.

It's a good thing he I would have been retired three years ago." He said he has spent the past few years trying ERIC SERVAREID to puncture some of the myths about television and broadcast journalism, which he said had stirred up the wrath of television's critics. "They say television is turning our minds to mush," he this is true, I don't know how you explain the increase in people fishing and hunting and playing tennis. If television is destroying the written word, how to you explain the increase in book reading since the advent of television? Some people never heard good English until radio came along." Sevareid. who termed Americans "as ornery and independent as ever." said. "There is the myth that (his is a violent world and television may have had a hand in it.

Actually, we are in one of the most peaceful periods in human history and the thought does occur that the mass media might have something to do with that. "I'm not going to say that it is a moral substitute for war, but every country has become sensitive about its reputation. When Idi Amin or someone does something wrong they always make sure the cameras aren't around." Sevareid said he regretted that tv newsmen become personalities and even stars. "People think we have great power and I don't think we have." he said. "Newsmen are not leaders of the body politic and they are not statesmen.

We should try to restore a sense of perspective to our view of newsmen. Exotic bird smugglers fined $500 FRESNO (AP) A Sonora man and his son who pleaded guilty to charges of smuggling exotic birds from Mexico have been fined $500 each and placed on three years probation. U.S. District Court Judge M. D.

Crocker imposed the sentences Tuesday against Duane Merle Hanson, 51. and his son Steven, 21, of Boyes Hot Springs. The elder Hanson was also prohibited from entering Mexico without first notifying probation authorities. The two were arrested in January by U.S. Customs agents, who confiscated 54 parrots and other birds.

A third defendant in the case. Robert Thomas Hnson. 64. who lives in Novato and owns a ranch in Mexico, was given a similar sentence Tuesday. All three had changed their initial innocent pleas to guilty.

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CBS had a 14.4 rating, for 10.3 million homes, and NBC had 13.3, or 9.5 million. In order, the week's top 10 shows were: Boxing, ABC, a 24.9 rating, or 17.7 million households; M.A.S.H., CBS, 21.9. or 15.6 million: "Lucan" and "Good Against Evil." ABC's Sunday movie double feature, 21.8, or 15.5 million; "Charlie's Angels." 21. or 14.9 million: "Laverne Shirley." ABC. 20.9, or 14.9 million: "One Day at a Time." CBS.

20.5. or 14.6 million: "Happy Days." ABC. 20. or 14.2 million; "Barney Miller." ABC. 18, or 12.8 million: "Cold Turkey." CBS's Monday movie.

17.9. or 12.7 million, and "Ben Hur." CBS's Sunday movie. 17.2, or 12.2 million. The next 10 shows were "What's Happening," ABC: "60 Minutes." CBS; "Carol Burnett," CBS: "Harvey Korman Show," ABC; "Princess Grace," NBC; "Welcome Back, Kotter," ABC; "All in the Family." CBS: and "The Deadly Triangle." NBC. "Streets of San Francisco." ABC.

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