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COMMENTS: Irving Blazed a Trail
"Now it can be told, the R was for Raskin," thus NBC anchor Brian Williams paid tribute to 45-year NBC Newser Irving "R" Levine, who died in retirement at the age of 86. Apart from his bow tie and middle initial--and that slightly camp accent--"he was best known for blazing a trail covering economics on television…before the letters CNBC existed there was only Irving R Levine," boasted Williams, a claim which is unfair to Ray Brady at CBS. CBS anchor Katie Couric (no link) was a longtime Levine colleague at NBC: "Producers, trying to shorten one of his reports, suggested he drop the R. He suggested dropping the B in N-B-C."
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