background-position: -208px -32px; * jQuery UI CSS Framework @VERSION background-position: -80px -160px; } She created Senator Fairweather, a cartoon character who commented on the days events. position: absolute; .error { .ui-button-text-icons .ui-button-icon-secondary, .ui-icon-grip-diagonal-se { background-position: -16px -16px; Her zodiac sign is Cancer. margin: 0 2.5rem; background-position: -208px -96px; ", "She sat in my lap or something corny like that," Brinkley said in a1961 interview, "and I told her who Chet was while he looked on [in] themonitor. margin: .7em 0 0 0; background-position: -48px -224px; text-decoration: none; height: 100%; } background-position: -32px -208px; } .ui-helper-clearfix:after { .ui-state-default .ui-icon { } .ui-tabs .ui-tabs-nav li a { In between, she raced tothe Shoreham Hotel's swanky Blue Room nightclub, where she changedcostumes to sing in two nightly floor shows. .ui-datepicker-multi .ui-datepicker-group-last .ui-datepicker-header, } } .ui-datepicker th { .ui-progressbar .ui-progressbar-overlay { } direction: rtl; } After Huntley died in 1974, Stringer went on the lecture circuit to draw attention to the emotional and psychological hardships associated with becoming a widow. border-right-width: 0; } Her full given name, Lewis Tipton Stringer, led to a mix-up in which she was accepted to attend William and Mary College under the mistaken assumption that she was a male. margin: 0 auto .4em; padding: .2em .2em 0; position: relative; background-position: -96px -80px; position: relative; top: 2px; In 1980, Conrad married Tipton "Tippy" Stringer (1930-2010), a TV pioneer and the widow of NBC newscaster Chet Huntley. margin-right: .1em; margin-top: -8px; input:-webkit-autofill, Your submission has been received! * Released under the MIT license. * input:-moz-autofill, In reply to: Re: Tippy Stringer who married Chet Huntley. padding: 0; They lived in New York until retiring in1970 to Huntley's home state, Montana, where they founded the Big SkyResort on the Gallatin River outside Bozeman. .ui-icon-gripsmall-diagonal-se { .ui-icon-radio-on { .ui-icon-blank { color: indianred; /* states and images */ border-top: 0; */ Also performing as a star singer at the Shoreham hotel near where the television station was housed, she would often traverse an underground tunnel that connected the two, as she did two floor shows and two weather shows nightly requiring speedy runs through the tunnel. position: absolute; background-position: -160px -192px; Marriage Huntley's first marriage, to Ingrid Rolin, produced two daughters and ended in divorce in 1959. .ui-icon-carat-1-se { /*! On this site which analyses celebrities, Tippy is well known as one of the top stars. .ui-spinner-button { .ui-widget-overlay { .ui-datepicker .ui-datepicker-prev { $(function(){ * Copyright 2013 jQuery Foundation and other contributors clear: left; } Since she had been assigned to a mens dormitory and there was no more room in the womens at William and Mary, she decided instead to attend the University of Maryland , and changed her name permanently to Tippy. } font-size: 1rem; .ui-icon-comment { } } .ui-tabs .ui-tabs-nav li a, Also an author, he published a 1968 memoir entitled The Generous Years: Remembrances of a Frontier Boyhood. background-position: -112px -64px; /*! "Her long suit is fashion, beauty and theundeniable fact that she's about the cutest thing seen on TV in theseparts. content: "\f00d"; Both of Stringers parents were graduates of the University of Chicago, and her father was an executive with the National Broadcasting Association. .ui-datepicker-rtl .ui-datepicker-next { position: absolute; But it was her personality that set her apart and helped her become such a popular figure on the air. /* ui-icon-seek-first is deprecated, use ui-icon-seek-start instead */ } overflow: visible; z-index: 2; border-left: 0; top: 50%; Upon Huntley's retirement from NBC news in 1970, the couple founded the Big Sky Resort outside Bozeman, in his home state of Montana.After Huntley died in 1974, Stringer went on the lecture circuit to draw attention to the emotional and psychological hardships associated with becoming a widow. .ui-helper-reset { } } * } } } background-position: -80px -112px; font-weight: bold; .ui-datepicker-multi-2 .ui-datepicker-group { Press Esc to cancel. } In 1950 she became a forecast presenter at NBC. input:required:focus { .ui-state-hover, } list-style: none; .ui-button-text-icons .ui-icon, Here's a link to the 1955 Life magazine story about local TV "weathergirls," including Tippy: >A remarkable life! /* Misc visuals width: 1.2em; .ui-menu-icons .ui-menu-item a { background-position: -48px -192px; ----------------------------------*/ left: auto; .ui-icon-stop { A most remarkable woman. position: absolute; } * http://jqueryui.com } left: .5em; Mailing Address:The Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research FoundationFDR Station, PO Box 220New York, NY 10150, 1-800-ALZINFO (259-4636)Phone: 1-212-915-1328Email: info@alzinfo.org. } * Copyright 2013 jQuery Foundation and other contributors .ui-button:visited, I cherish the memories of the times we laughed together, shared great food & wine, talked about current events, t.v., movies, and "life". .ui-button-text-icon-secondary .ui-button-icon-secondary, } position: fixed; } .ui-helper-hidden-accessible { While working for NBC in Washington D.C., Huntley met Tipton (Tippy) Stringer who was working as a weather reporter at the time. ----------------------------------*/ .ui-icon-triangle-1-nw { border-left-width: 1px; padding: 0; .ui-icon-star { .ui-datepicker .ui-datepicker-prev-hover { left: auto; /* positioning */ } line-height: 1.8em; * Copyright 2013 jQuery Foundation and other contributors .ui-icon-arrowthickstop-1-s { } .ui-widget-header .ui-priority-secondary { /* Change Autocomplete styles in FireFox*/ background-position: -112px -80px; .ui-icon-arrowrefresh-1-w { Upon Huntleys retirement from NBC news in 1970, the couple founded the Big Sky Resort outside Bozeman, in his home state of Montana. background-position: -16px 0; .ui-tabs .ui-tabs-nav { height: 16px; background-position: 0 -48px; background-position: -48px 0; She was one of the pioneer female anchors in the industry. background-position: -64px -32px; .ui-datepicker-multi .ui-datepicker-group table { Tippy passed away on October 1, 2010. border-right: none; right: 2px; textarea.textfield.otherdonate:-webkit-autofill:hover, height: 7px; font-weight: bold; .ui-icon-flag { } .ui-button-icons-only .ui-button-icon-primary { background-position: -176px -48px; .ui-datepicker-multi .ui-datepicker-group-middle .ui-datepicker-header { } Sarah Lewis Tipton, her maternal grandmother, motivated her name. She is most remembered for Wrc-TV. background-position: 0 -128px; .ui-widget-content { .ui-widget select, border: 1px solid red; /*! background-position: -112px 0; border: 0; margin: -8px 0 0 -8px; float: right; } height: 50%; } display: inline-block; line-height: normal; background-position: -128px -128px; border: 1px solid #9eb6be; (Left) Shows Tippy Huntley with husband Chet Huntley preparing for the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. William Conrad died in 1994 after 14 years of marriage. left: 0; Tippy was my friend for almost 40 years - in Big Sky, Montana, and through her times in L.A. left: 0; His zodiac sign is Sagittarius. background-position: -64px -80px; background-position: -16px -176px; .ui-button { .ui-icon-radio-off { background-position: -144px -112px; .ui-widget-header .ui-state-active { margin-top: 2px; .ui-datepicker .ui-datepicker-next-hover { padding-left: 25px; * http://jqueryui.com transform: translate(0, -50%); } The show became wildly popular with viewers. } background-position: -128px -48px; height: 100px; padding: 1em 1.4em; } border-bottom: 0; text-indent: -99999px; ----------------------------------*/ .ui-button-text-icon-primary .ui-button-text, background-position: -32px -192px; padding-left: 2.2em; button.ui-button-icon-only { * Copyright 2013 jQuery Foundation and other contributors } line-height: 30px; * http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Resizable#theming Upon Huntley's retirement from NBC news in 1970, the couple founded the Big Sky Resort outside Bozeman, in his home state of Montana. .ui-slider-horizontal .ui-slider-range { font-weight: 500; .ui-icon-grip-solid-vertical { .ui-state-default a:visited { } } overflow: auto; * .ui-state-highlight .ui-icon { American TV Personality Chet Huntley was born Chester Robert Huntley on 10th December, 1911 in Cardwell, Montana, USA and passed away on 20th Mar 1974 Bozeman, Montana, USA aged 62. top: 1px; .ui-icon-circle-triangle-e { left: 0; background-position: -32px -160px; color: inherit; border-right-width: 0; Lyle Johnston 3/31/01. bottom: 0; height: 9px; filter: inherit; * .ui-icon-print { One of the first women to appear on a large-market news broadcast, Tippy Stringer gained a following in the Washington, D.C. area as a weather reporter for the television station WRC-TV. background:#ac3d05 !important; * Copyright 2013 jQuery Foundation and other contributors .ui-progressbar-indeterminate .ui-progressbar-value { .ui-icon-trash { padding: 1px; } .ui-datepicker-rtl .ui-datepicker-next { .ui-datepicker-rtl .ui-datepicker-buttonpane button { .ui-datepicker-multi .ui-datepicker-group table { background-position: -160px -48px; background-position: -96px -64px; margin-left: 0; * text-align: center; ----------------------------------*/ .ui-icon-triangle-2-n-s { padding: .4em; text-align: left; padding: .4em 2.1em .4em 1em; */ } .ui-progressbar .ui-progressbar-value { .ui-icon-arrow-1-e { border-width: 1px 0 0 0; .ui-icon-circle-zoomout { * jQuery UI Dialog @VERSION * Copyright 2013 jQuery Foundation and other contributors } } } padding: 1px; background-image: none; } .ui-button:active { .ui-corner-bottom, position: absolute; } font-weight: normal; padding: 0; background-position: -224px -32px; .ui-datepicker table { .w-container { left: 2px; background-image: url(/wp-content/themes/ALZinfo/less/jqui/images/ui-icons_888888_256x240.png); filter: alpha(opacity=25); } /* button text element */ text-align: right; .ui-resizable-handle { .ui-icon-arrow-1-s { opacity: 0; * jQuery UI Progressbar @VERSION The couple courted 'virtually' for several months before marrying in 1959. She was admitted to the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg onlyto discover that the school had assumed, given her name, that she was ayoung man. .ui-button-text-icon-secondary .ui-icon, Something went wrong while submitting the form. } .ui-datepicker .ui-datepicker-buttonpane button { * http://jqueryui.com One of the first women to appear on a large . */ } } /* For IE8 - See #6727 */ background-position: -16px -96px; } } .ui-datepicker-rtl .ui-datepicker-prev:hover { * Released under the MIT license. } * .ui-icon-contact { background-position: -16px -112px; } color: #222222; outline: none; color: #134a6b; } /* Interaction Cues .ui-datepicker td span, border: 0; border-collapse: collapse; } font-size: 100%; .ui-button-icons-only { .ui-datepicker-rtl .ui-datepicker-group-middle .ui-datepicker-header { Ms.. .ui-icon-arrowthick-1-n { } One of the first women to appear on a large-market news broadcast, Tippy Stringer gained a following in the Washington, D.C. area as a weather reporter for the television station WRC-TV. select.input-icon > i:-webkit-autofill:focus { /*! } background-position: -96px -96px; } } padding: 0; } .ui-icon-arrowthick-1-se { position: relative; .ui-icon-battery-0 { /* no icon support for input elements, provide padding by default */ She resided at 425 North Maple Drive in Beverly Hills, California at the time of her death. color: #134a6b; input.ui-button::-moz-focus-inner, .ui-state-active a, Lewis Tipton Stringer was an American television pioneer, a weather reporter, and the wife of prominent news anchor Chet Huntley. .ui-button-icons-only .ui-button-icon-secondary { } In 1980, Stringer met actor William Conrad, the original voice of Marshall Matt Dillon on the radio version of Gunsmoke, and later known for his roles in television shows such as Cannon. ----------------------------------*/ background-position: -128px -32px; } .ui-icon-arrowreturn-1-s { } /* support: IE7 */ Brinkley, stationed in Washington D.C., introduced Stringer to Huntley in New York via satellite. .ui-widget-content .ui-priority-primary, } } } } .ui-icon-image { margin-bottom: -1px; background: none; body .ui-tooltip { } background-position: -32px -80px; width: 1.8em; .ui-slider-vertical .ui-slider-handle { .ui-datepicker-rtl .ui-datepicker-prev { font-size: 2.6rem; text-align: center; */ cursor: default; Ms. Stringer hosted cooking, homemaking and weather shows for WRC TV and radio before becoming the station's resident 'weather girl' in 1953. top: -0.3em; .ui-state-error-text, Lewis Tipton Stringer was an American television pioneer, a weather reporter, and the wife of prominent news anchor Chet Huntley. * } cursor: move; } } .ui-menu .ui-menu-icon { padding: .4em 1em .4em 2.1em; background-position: -112px -128px; background-position: -144px -192px; background-position: -80px -32px; width: 100%; width: 2.2em; } } left: 50%; * jQuery UI CSS Framework @VERSION .ui-icon-power { background-position: -16px -224px; @media only screen and (max-width: 979px) { * http://jqueryui.com margin: 0 auto .4em; } } top: 0; font-size: .5em; border: none; .ui-datepicker .ui-datepicker-title { input:-moz-autofill:hover, display: block; .ui-state-active, She is most remembered for Wrc-TV. Death [ edit] Huntley died of lung cancer on March 20, 1974, at his home in Big Sky at the age of 62, three days before the opening ceremonies for Big Sky. background-position: -96px -128px; /* Interaction states background-position: -16px -48px; width: auto; Tippy Stringer (m. 1959-74) Ingrid Rolin (m. 1936-59) Chester Robert "Chet" Huntley (December 10, 1911 - March 20, 1974) was an American television newscaster. .ui-icon-arrow-4-diag { } width: 17em; text-decoration: none; .ui-datepicker-rtl .ui-datepicker-prev:hover { color: #134a6b; background-position: -112px -112px; She even appeared on The Phil Donahue Show to discuss the stress and stigma of widowhood, topics that had not been widely publicly contemplated at the time. margin: -10px 0 0 0; } } Newscaster and co-anchor of The Huntley-Brinkley Report on NBC. } border: 1px solid #cd0a0a; .ui-slider-horizontal .ui-slider-handle { Huntley met his second wife, Lewis Tipton "Tippy" Stringer, in 1959. clear: right; } } * Copyright 2013 jQuery Foundation and other contributors } background-position: -32px -96px; left: 0; left: 1px; * http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Button#theming .ui-icon-signal { * Released under the MIT license. background-position: -32px -128px; * http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Selectable#theming } float: left; bottom: 1px; * font-weight: normal; select.textfield.otherdonate:-webkit-autofill, border: 1px solid #aaaaaa; * With space in women's dorms already allotted to otherstudents, she chose instead to attend the University of Maryland - andshe began calling herself Tippy. } .ui-datepicker-rtl .ui-datepicker-group-middle .ui-datepicker-header { height: 7px; .ui-dialog .ui-dialog-buttonpane { text-align: center; .ui-widget-content .ui-icon { * Released under the MIT license. float: left; * http://jquery.org/license height: 9px; } .ui-icon-carat-1-s { } } .ui-icon-arrow-1-nw { textarea.input-icon > i:-webkit-autofill:focus, } .ui-datepicker table { } } } .ui-corner-all, .ui-icon-triangle-1-n { border: 1px solid #c4bbae; ----------------------------------*/ margin: 1px .2em 0 0; .orangered-background { width: 49%; .ui-widget-content .ui-state-disabled, } .ui-datepicker-multi .ui-datepicker-group-last .ui-datepicker-header, vertical-align: middle; } background-position: -16px -144px; overflow: visible; border-collapse: collapse; } width: 33.3%; margin-left: 0; .ui-datepicker .ui-datepicker-prev, padding: .2em 0; } font-size: 0; textarea:-webkit-autofill, } } /* to make room for the icon, a width needs to be set here */ background-position: -48px -208px; cursor: pointer; .ui-icon-pencil { .ui-datepicker-row-break { background-position: -48px -80px; background-image: none; min-height: 5.2rem; Tippy Stringer Huntley and Chet Huntley were married for 14 years before Chet Huntley died aged 62.. About. .ui-datepicker .ui-datepicker-next-hover { right: .5em; right: -5px; box-shadow: 0 0 5px #aaa; } position: relative; Tippy Stringer Huntley Conrad, who became a Washington personalityduring the 1950s as a comely weather girl issuing forecasts on the localNBC affiliate, and who left the city for New York when she marriedtelevision newsman Chet Huntley, died Oct. 1 at her home in Los Angeles.She was 80 and had a brain tumor. .ui-icon-circle-arrow-n { The Washington business community took note of Stringers talents on the high-profile show, and invited her frequently to promote local products as well as appear in parades and other ceremonial events. background-position: -80px -224px; .ui-icon-arrowthick-1-nw { background-position: -32px 0; They fell in love and later married in 1959 and lived in New York until they retired. left: -0.3em; background-position: -32px -224px; width: 2.4em; background-position: -224px -112px; background-position: -48px -112px; } She presented the weather on Afternoon, a television show hosted by Willard Scott, and featuring Jim Henson and his early Muppets. left: 0; } height: 100%; padding: .4em 1em; .ui-icon-check { } Information and advice to help you cope with the death of someone important to you. .ui-datepicker-rtl .ui-datepicker-buttonpane button.ui-datepicker-current, color: #212121; top: 50%; "I'm very fond of crinolines because they make your waist look sosmall," she said. cursor: default !important; } min-height: 0; } margin-top: .5em; } */ background: none; z-index: 9999; .ui-icon-triangle-1-se { .ui-button-text-icons .ui-button-text { } text-decoration: none; } .ui-icon-circle-arrow-w { left: 1px; background-position: -112px -48px; Quotes " right: 1px; } } * http://jquery.org/license They had no children. } padding-right: 0; She created most of the programs content: interviews, cooking segments, and a cartoon creation called Senator Fairweather. padding: 8px; cursor: default; position: relative; margin: 0; height: .8em; padding: 0 .2em; text-decoration: none; .ui-datepicker .ui-datepicker-next-hover { .ui-datepicker td a { .ui-icon-circlesmall-minus { .ui-icon-arrowthick-2-e-w { .ui-widget-header .ui-state-error { background-position: -64px -48px; width: 95%; * http://jquery.org/license Newscaster and co-anchor of The Huntley-Brinkley Report on NBC. } background-position: -176px -112px; He is most remembered for The Huntley-Brinkley Report. .ui-menu .ui-menu-item a { margin: .5em .2em .4em; * jQuery UI Datepicker @VERSION .ui-button-text-icons .ui-button-text { width: 9px; /* need to fix icons sprite */ clear: both; } }); background-position: -192px -192px; /* vertical centre icon */ .ui-icon-arrow-1-n { /* more specificity required here to overide default borders */ } border: 0; .ui-spinner-input { * jQuery UI Slider @VERSION pointer-events: none; * Released under the MIT license. She "pitches her patter at women, but Miss Stringer herself iswell-worth any male's attention," wrote Washington Post TV reviewerLawrence Laurent in 1953. Tippy Stringer Huntley boyfriend, husband list. z-index: 9999 !important; } * http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Slider#theming .ui-datepicker .ui-datepicker-header { border: 0; font-weight: normal; /* with multiple calendars */ position: absolute; .ui-icon-suitcase { .ui-icon-carat-1-ne { .ui-icon-copy { .ui-icon-mail-open { She created most of the program's content: interviews, cooking segments, and a cartoon creation called Senator Fairweather. bottom: 0; z-index: 1; } } background-position: -48px -128px; width: 12px; To plant trees in memory, please visit the, Thank you, for your trailblazing and professionalism. } width: auto; } } } .ui-icon-squaresmall-minus { Stringer-Huntley-Conrad, Tipton 07-15-1930 - 10-01-2010 Tipton "Tippy" Stringer Huntley Conrad, TV Pioneer, Weather Reporter and Wife, dies at 80. bottom: -5px; background-position: -64px -224px; } top: 0; } width: 100%; } I'm embarrassed that I wasn't familiar with her. * http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Autocomplete#theming .ui-button-icons-only .ui-button-text { z-index: 9999 !important; } transition: background-color 5000s ease-in-out 0s; padding: 0; } .ui-icon-seek-end { } .ui-icon-document-b { } Tippy was one of the first women in broadcast news and a pioneer of the new technology of wireless microphones that made broadcast news possible. } .ui-button:hover, NBC, David Brinkley and New York University, where the Chet Huntley Memorial Lectures are held each . .ui-state-default a, Listeners highly anticipated her forecasts that executives at WRC-TV once considered moving the evening news to accommodate them. In 1957, Conrad was married to former fashion model Susan Randall (1940-1979), and the couple had one son, Christopher. z-index: 100; } .ui-widget input, /*! .ui-accordion .ui-accordion-icons { .ui-widget-content .ui-state-focus, Funeral Services will be held at Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries. */ } right: 1px; .ui-icon-grip-dotted-horizontal { background-position: -240px -32px; background-position: -16px -160px; background: #ffffff; background-position: -16px -208px; background-position: -64px -112px; .ui-icon-arrowreturn-1-e { Lightly creased, slightly soiled. .ui-datepicker select.ui-datepicker-year { .ui-tabs .ui-tabs-nav li.ui-tabs-active a, .ui-datepicker .ui-datepicker-buttonpane button.ui-datepicker-current { * Released under the MIT license. The multi-talented and ever lovely Tippy Stringer (born Tipton Stringer in Evanston, Illinois, 1930-2010) was a popular weathergirl for NBC radio and television during the 1950's. . Stringers magnetic personality, theatricality and talent drew the attention of film industry executives and theatrical agents, but her choice of a career in broadcasting made her a pioneer: not only was she one of the first women in broadcast news, but also one of the first entertainers to use the new wireless microphone technology.