" The anchors appeared on the cover of Newsweek on March 13, 1961, with a similar tagline, " TV's Huntley and Brinkley: One is Solemn, the Other Twinkly.

From 1956 through 1970, he co-anchored NBC's top-rated nightly news program, The Huntley – Brinkley Report, with Chet Huntley and thereafter appeared as co-anchor or commentator on its successor, NBC Nightly News, through the 1970s.

Brinkley has been married four times, most notably to musician Billy Joel, several of whose music videos she appeared in.

Brinkley appeared on three consecutive Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Edition covers ( 1979, 1980 and 1981 ) – the first time that had happened — and appeared in the publication ’ s annual swimsuit issues and television specials for years to follow. Brinkley was featured exclusively in the first Sports Illustrated Calendar and also released two of her own exclusive calendars to unparalleled success.

As an editorial model, Brinkley has appeared on over 500 magazine covers, including US, Vogue, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Glamour and the best-selling issue of LIFE ever ( photo ).

The two met at Studio 54 in New York City at a party promoting a calendar in which Brinkley appeared.

She rose to fame in the 1980s and 1990s as a swimsuit model who appeared in 13 consecutive Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues inspiring, with Christie Brinkley and Cindy Crawford, the term " supermodel ".

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.

After his death Ernest Satow wrote of Brinkley to Frederick Victor Dickins on 21 November 1912: " I have not seen any fuller memoir of Brinkley than what appeared in “ The Times ”.

* Moya Brinkley ( Sandra Toovey ) First appeared episode 864

Upon travelling to Vegas, they run into the " girl in the Ferrari " ( Christie Brinkley ) who appeared in the first film, Clark is the only one who sees her, but then notices that she has a child.

However, last night the tapes were not run at all during the evening hours and all we got on TV were a few snatches which Douglas Edwards and Huntley and Brinkley could squeeze into their programs.

He was a frequent interviewer with Bob Clark on the ABC Sunday news program, Issues and Answers, which began in 1960 but was revamped and renamed in 1981 as This Week with David Brinkley.

Alan Brinkley has suggested that " the gap between the expansive intentions of the War on Poverty and its relatively modest achievements fueled later conservative arguments that government is not an appropriate vehicle for solving social problems.

Hank Azaria first based his voice for Wiggum on David Brinkley, but it was too slow and he switched it to an Edward G. Robinson impression.

* Brinkley Act: Section 325 ( b ) of the Communications Act of 1934 that was written into law in an attempt to halt live broadcasting from radio studios in the United States linked to high-powered " border blaster " transmitters on the Mexican side of the international border, via telephone land lines.

The interstate continues east through Lonoke, Brinkley, and West Memphis on the eastern side.

A Petition Request was granted to incorporate Brinkley on August 6, 1872, at which time the town had 50 qualified voters.

Men, and women, from around the United States come to Brinkley to go on guided hunts throughout the entire season.

Brinkley has attempted to capitalize on its good fortune of being the largest city near the Refuge and the rediscovery of the woodpecker:

* A billboard on eastbound Interstate 40 proclaims Brinkley as " The Home of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker "

Under new ownership, the railroad became profitable, not only as a freight line, but also by providing daily passenger service from Clarendon to Brinkley and on to Helena, making stops in Marvell along the way.

* July 31 – Chet Huntley anchors his final newscast with David Brinkley and retires, bringing down the curtain on a 14-year career at NBC News and, thus, as chief anchor of The Huntley-Brinkley Report.

He replaced Camel News Caravan with the Huntley-Brinkley Report, which premiered on October 29, 1956, with Huntley in New York and Brinkley in Washington.

Producer Reuven Frank, who had advocated pairing Huntley and Brinkley for the convention coverage, thought using two anchors on a regular news program " was one of the dumber ideas I had ever heard.

When only Huntley or Brinkley was on the program, that one would merely say " Good night for NBC News ".

For most of its run, The Huntley-Brinkley Report aired only Monday through Friday, but in January 1969, the network expanded it to Saturday evenings, with Huntley and Brinkley working solo on alternating weeks.

Huntley and Brinkley concluded their final newscast together on July 31, 1970, with the following parting words:

In these years I have often been stopped in public by a cop who was polite who knew I was either Huntley or Brinkley, but weren't sure which and so they have asked, so from now on, when somebody stops me in the street and says, " Aren't you Chet Huntley?

Brinkley worked as co-anchor or commentator on Nightly News until 1981 when he departed for ABC News and its new weekly Sunday morning news program This Week.

At first, David Brinkley, John Chancellor, and Frank McGee formed a rotating troika, only two of whom anchored the program on a given night.

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.

Chancellor again became sole anchor on October 10, 1979, and Brinkley provided commentaries again until leaving NBC for ABC in 1981, where he became host of that network's Sunday morning interview show This Week.

For the first year after the Sunday night report began, Chancellor, Brinkley, and McGee rotated as on weeknights ; there were no separate weekend anchors.

The major networks all offer a morning news program ( NBC's The Today Show and ABC's Good Morning America are the standard bearers ), as well as an early-evening newscast anchored by the de facto face of the network's news operations ( Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather for CBS ; NBC's Chet Huntley, David Brinkley and Tom Brokaw ; ABC's Peter Jennings ).

Over the past decade, Korb has made over 1, 000 appearances as a commentator on such shows as Countdown with Keith Olbermann, The Today Show, The Early Show, Good Morning America, Face the Nation, This Week with David Brinkley, the MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Nightline, 60 Minutes, Frontline, Larry King Live, the O ’ Reilly Factor, and Crossfire.

As for television, Brinkley hosted Celebrity Weddings InStyle, the highest rated special in Lifetime's history, and her appearance on NBC's Mad About You was the broadcaster's highest rated half-hour episode, since the finale of The Cosby Show.

Alan Brinkley won the latter award in 1983

Brinkley played her first role as an actress in the 1983 hit National Lampoon's Vacation as " The girl in the red Ferrari " opposite Chevy Chase ; she reprised that role in the 1997 sequel Vegas Vacation.

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.

Brinkley and Joel met in 1983 on the Island of St Barts, in the Caribbean.