Critics considered Huntley to possess one of the best broadcast voices ever heard, and Brinkley's dry, often witty, newswriting presented viewers a contrast to the often sober output from CBS News.

In fact, aside from their sign-off, Huntley and Brinkley's only communication came when one anchor finished a story and handed off to the other by saying the other's name, a signal to an AT & T technician to switch the long-distance transmission lines from New York to Washington or vice versa.

Brinkley's first lawyer in the case was Robert Wallack, and she was later represented by Robert Stephan Cohen, both top divorce attorneys.

Brinkley's observations that several stars shifted their apparent place in the sky in the course of a year were disproved at Greenwich by his contemporary John Pond, the Astronomer Royal.

Donaldson appeared as a panelist on the Sunday morning television program This Week with David Brinkley from its inception in 1981 and after Brinkley's retirement in 1996 co-anchored the This Week program with Cokie Roberts until the two were replaced in September 2002 by George Stephanopoulos.

Brinkley continued living high in Del Rio, until in 1938 a rival doctor began cutting into Brinkley's business by offering similar procedures much more cheaply.

In the Introduction to Saved by the Light, Moody wrote Brinkley's near death experience stands as one of the most incredible he has ever heard.

Brinkley's account of serving as a CIA sniper in Laos was challenged by the Los Angeles Times and by the book Stolen Valor by B. G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley.

Since Brinkley's transmitters were licensed by Mexico, which at the time had very limited regulation of broadcast content, his broadcasting licenses could not be directly threatened by the U. S. government.

Captain Brinkley's great knowledge of Japanese life and language is admitted and admired by all.

CBS aired CBS Reports and Eyewitness, NBC broadcast Chet Huntley Reporting and David Brinkley's Journal, while ABC had Bell and Howell Close-up and the Howard K. Smith show.

After his birth on September 3, 1927, the tiny voice of Brinkley's son John Richard Brinkley III, nicknamed " Johnny Boy ", was heard on the radio program.

Moody later said Brinkley's forecast struck him as " silly and absurd " at the time but later proved accurate.

Chancellor became the sole anchor on August 9, 1971, with Brinkley providing three-minute commentaries from Washington several times a week under the title David Brinkley's Journal.

White eye-witness John S. Smith reported that 70 – 80 Indians were killed, including 20 – 30 warriors, which agrees with Brinkley's figure as to the number of men killed.

Brinkley's ability to write for the ear with simple, declarative sentences gained him a reputation as one of the medium's most talented writers, and his connections in Washington led CBS's Roger Mudd to observe, " Brinkley, of all the TV guys here, probably has the best sense of the city -- best understands its moods and mentality.

Alexa Ray Joel, Brinkley's daughter with ex-husband Billy Joel, testified about such behavior toward her, which Cook denied.

From August 9, 1971 to June 4, 1976, Chancellor became the sole weeknight anchor ( Garrick Utley and others took over weekend duties ), stationed at the New York NBC headquarters, with Brinkley reduced to contributing pre-recorded commentaries, titled David Brinkley's Journal, about two to three times per week from Washington.

Brinkley's next move was to Knoxville, Tennessee, where he played right-hand man, helping hawk virility " tonics " with a man named Dr. Burke.

The Kansas City Star, which owned a radio station that competed with Brinkley's, ran an unfavorable series of reports on him.

In 1938, Brinkley's old nemesis, Morris Fishbein, entered the picture again with a vengeance, publishing a two-part series called " Modern Medical Charlatans " that included a thorough repudiation of Brinkley's checkered career, as well as exposing his questionable medical credentials.

Brinkley's work with dying veterans and AIDS patients began in 1984 and he has logged many thousands of volunteer hospice hours.

Brinkley's last dispatch to The Times was written from his deathbed in 1912, reporting on a seppuku: Emperor Meiji had recently died and to show fealty to the deceased emperor, General Nogi Maresuke together with his wife committed hara-kiri.

Stevens claimed that Brinkley would not last fifty seconds in the ring with him beforehand, and started the fight aggressively, landing several hard hooks to Brinkley's face in the 1st round, causing swelling over Jesse's right eye very early, but Brinkley weathered the initial storm of Stevens, and outboxed / outfought him in an entertaining fight, dropping Stevens in the 6th and 12th rounds en route to a wide decision win, 117-109, 118-108, 119-107.

From 1961 to 1963, Brinkley anchored a prime time news magazine, David Brinkley's Journal.

Six months after losing his medical license, the Federal Radio Commission refused to renew his station ’ s broadcasting license, finding that Brinkley's broadcasts were mostly advertising, which violated international treaties, that he broadcast obscene material, and that his Medical Question Box series was " contrary to the public interest ".

* Robert Hough, Dr. Brinkley's Tower

Once world-famous, XERF commenced operations in 1947 using the old facilities of John R. Brinkley's XERA, which ceased broadcasting in 1939.

Brinkley's appearances were always from Washington and McGee's from New York.

* In William Brinkley's post-nuclear apocalypse novel, The Last Ship, McMurdo Station becomes the essential restocking point for an American-Soviet submarine crew of survivors.

Another example of Brinkley's seething wryness was evinced on the third night of Chicago's infamous Democratic Convention of 1968.

In 1983 Brinkley wrote and illustrated a book on health and beauty titled Christie Brinkley's Outdoor Beauty and Fitness Book, which topped the New York Times best seller list.

In July 2008, a court-appointed psychiatrist, speaking during child custody proceedings in Brinkley's fourth divorce, testified that while he believed Brinkley should gain custody of her and Cook's children, both she and Cook need therapy.

Between 1810 and 1824 he persistently controverted the reality of Ireland's Astronomer Royal John Brinkley's imaginary star-parallaxes.

Brinkley's medical and political career are documented in Pope Brock's book Charlatan.

Ebert's reviews are also often characterized by dry wit.

In Forbidden Planet, Robby exhibited artificial intelligence, but with a distinct personality that showed a ( possibly unintentional ) dry wit, presumably programmed by Dr. Morbius.

De Jong is known for his dry wit and his abilities as a team leader, his cabinet was the first cabinet after World War II that completed a full term without any internal conflicts.

In his first " rebuttal " chapter, Bob professes not to have understood anything Chris wrote ; he proceeds to use this and all subsequent chapters to talk about the summer he's having at his vacation cottage in Maine instead, employing the familiar Bob and Ray style of dry wit.

Influential in the establishment of stoic, dry wit as a characteristic of Australian humour were the bush balladeers of the 19th century, including Henry Lawson, author of " The Loaded Dog ".

Jeff is somewhat dim, making him a prime target for Zoey's dry wit, but possesses a good heart.

When Solomon Lincoln suggested that Abe might have forebears in Hingham, Abe responded with dry Lincoln wit that if the town's name were ' Hang '- em ' then he probably did have relatives there.

While Roarke nearly always had the best intentions for his guests, he possessed a dark sense of humor and a dry wit with sarcastic undertones.

Gage wrote clearly, logically, and often with a dry wit and a well-honed sense of irony.

Roy has a dry wit but is less acerbic than Speed.

In his review for the Los Angeles Times, Kenneth Turan wrote, " As always with the best of Leonard, it's the journey, not the destination, that counts, and director Soderbergh has let it unfold with dry wit and great skill.

Representing the liberal or left-wing position in the televised political debates, Kinsley combined a dry wit with nerdy demeanour and analytical skills.

This delivery is also called dry humor or dry wit ; when the intent, but not the presentation, is humorous, blunt, oblique, sarcastic or apparently unintentional.

Johnstone's dry wit was in evidence when the Lisbon Lions were paraded at Celtic Park on the 25th anniversary of their triumph in the European Cup.

Nodwick isn't as knowledgeable as Artax or as wise as Piffany, but he possesses the most common sense in the group, and is the most likely to protest their hare-brained schemes .. Over the course of his travails, Nodwick has developed a dry sense of humor and a jaded wit, and lost whatever fear of death he ever held.

An urbane, mutant telepath with a well-noted dry wit initially known as the White Queen, Frost has evolved from one of the X-Men's most dangerous foes to one of its most central members.

He wrote police procedurals, spy novels and short stories, courtroom dramas, classical mysteries, adventure thrillers, crime novels, and almost every possible combination of these, all with the same competence and dry, detached wit.

While never considered to be a particularly charismatic player, Faldo surprised many fans with his dry, British wit and insightful commentary as part of the ABC team.

Thomas's goofy charm together with Bessell's dry wit, made That Girl a solid performer on the ABC Television Network, and while the series, in the overall ratings, never made the top thirty during its entire five-year run, the series did respectably well.

The popularity of Bunny can be attributed to the succulent fun of the music hall and the circus, not the dry wit of sophisticated comedies.

In Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Clarke infuses her dry wit with prosaic quaintness.

As she explains, " Both Clarke's and O ' Brian's stories are about a complicated relationship between two men bound together by their profession ; both are set during the Napoleonic wars ; and they share a dry, melancholy wit and unconventional narrative shape.

" Four days later, with its customary dry wit, The Economist alluded to the quote, and published an article about Indonesia referring to the " crossroads ".