Hugh Downs (1921–2020)
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Hugh Downs, one of the most recognized figures in American television, coanchored ABC's 20/20, hosted NBC's Today show for nine years, and was Jack Paar's sidekick for five years on NBC's Tonight Show. He received multiple Emmy awards throughout his career and is the author of nine books. He and mostra altro his wife, Ruth, live in Paradise Valley, Arizona mostra meno
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Opere di Hugh Downs
My America: What My Country Means to Me, by 150 Americans from All Walks of Life (2002) — A cura di — 43 copie
Rings around tomorrow 4 copie
The best years book: How to plan for fulfillment, security, and happiness in the retirement years (1981) 2 copie
A Shoal Of Stars. 1st 2 copie
20/20 July 23, 1993 [transcript #1332] — Host; Correspondent — 1 copia
Opere correlate
Weekly reader : 60 years of news for kids, 1928-1988 (1988) — Introduzione; Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 9 copie
Carnival of the Animals Op. 34, Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell (1964) — Narratore — 4 copie
Neighborhoods Within Neighborhoods: Twentieth Century Life on Chicago's Far North Side (2002) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Downs, Hugh Malcolm
- Data di nascita
- 1921-02-14
- Data di morte
- 2020-07-01
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Akron, Ohio, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
- Causa della morte
- natural causes
- Luogo di residenza
- Lima, Ohio, USA
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
New York, New York, USA - Istruzione
- Wayne University, Detroit
Columbia University
Hunter College - Attività lavorative
- radio announcer
television host
journalist
composer
writer
advocate for the elderly (mostra tutto 7)
family planning advocate
Utenti
Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 16
- Opere correlate
- 6
- Utenti
- 215
- Popolarità
- #103,625
- Voto
- 3.1
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 19
His 1995 book “Perspectives” gives some idea of the breadth of his interests. The book is a collection of short essays first presented on the ABC radio show “Perspective.” Not until the acknowledgements at the end of the book does he acknowledge that many of these essays were co-written by his son, H.R. Downs.
Some of these essays are now dated. Others just aren't very interesting, more a recitation of related facts than the expression of an original idea. Yet most of them make amazing, entertaining and informative reading.
He tells of visiting the South Pole and of, in his words, "literally going around the world in twenty-four steps." In another essay he has us imagine the entire solar system as being the size of your thumbnail. In that case, the Milky Way would be the size of the state of Alaska. He writes that clothing is "a kind of advertising," and he says that trousers were invented in Scotland because those kilts can get a bit drafty in the winter. At first men just put a wool sleeve called a trowse on each leg. When eventually sewed together, they became trousers.
He writes about motorcycles (who knew Hugh Downs rode Harleys?), gambling, horses, phobias, left-handedness, dogs, coins, tipping, the free press and other subjects both serious and whimsical. Sometimes he gets personal, as when he tells about appearing on television before he had ever had the chance to watch television.
It was an endlessly fascinating world from Hugh Downs's perspective. A quarter century later his “Perspectives” remains worthwhile reading.… (altro)