SHORT TAKES : Media ‘Survivors’ to Meet Again
Eighteen years ago in the New York newsroom of what was then called the “ABC Evening News,” a cigar-smoking, green-eyeshade-clad writer named Sid Kline got up from his typewriter after the broadcast and announced that since everybody there had just survived another long winter without committing suicide, they all ought to go out and celebrate.
And ever since on the last Tuesday of February, a group has met to celebrate “Survivors Day” in New York. Tonight, about 50 will gather for dinner at Molly Mog’s Club in Manhattan, and the Survivors, some of them flying in for the occasion, will report in from ABC, CBS and the Financial News Network.
Missing tonight will be then-co-anchor Harry Reasoner (with Howard K. Smith), who’s on assignment in Africa for “60 Minutes.”
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