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Journalist and television
pioneer Dorsey Connors Forbes died in Chicago, September 5, 2007.
A University of Illinois graduate, she made her broadcast debut in 1948 as Dorsey Connors, hosting
radio and television shows on WGN and later covering the Presidential Conventions with Jack
Brickhouse. She soon became associated with the so-called Chicago School of
Television, low cost and highly imaginative programming that typified the kind
of fare available to local
viewers in the 1950’s. She was a featured
participant on WMAQ-TV's ''Five Star Final," a news-weather-sports and
entertainment show
presented each weeknight between 10 and 11 PM. Co-hosting were newsman Clifton
Utley and weatherman
Clint Youle with sports commentator Tom Duggan and pianist Herbie
Mintz.
From 1954-1958, she was
the Midwest commentator for NBC-TV's Today Show
and Home Show. The Dorsey Connors Show ran for 13 years on WMAQ-TV.
She authored several self-help books
and her syndicated column appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times from 1965 until
2000.
In 1995,
Ms. Connors was inducted
into the TV Academy’s
prestigious Silver Circle for her exemplary body of work and was tapped
as a presenter for the 40th anniversary of the TV Academy in 1998. In 2004, she
graciously endowed the very
first Silver Circle Scholarship.
Sources
for this article include the Chicago Sun Times, The Chicago Tribune, Lenore
Dupuis, Diana Borri, and www.richsamuels.com.
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