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By Justin Enriquez. For over 40 years, she has reported the news. And now Diane Sawyer has shown her fans what she looked before her career as a television journalist. The year-old star shared a throwback picture of herself from the s to her , followers on Thursday. Scroll down for video. Classic beauty: Diane Sawyer, 68, shared a throwback snap of herself from the s on Thursday. The current ABC World News anchor was fresh-faced in the vintage snap as her signature blonde locks were in a voluminous Sixties 'do. Sawyer looked beautiful in the image as she wore a black long-sleeved top and wore natural, complementary make-up. The veteran journalist appeared to be quite studious in her younger years as she was photoed reading a text book while holding the temple of her spectacles up to her lips. She captioned the photo: '.
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In an era when I would have been more than happy to receive the acclaim of my peers — no matter how astounded — I became a hero, albeit briefly, for sleeping with Diane Sawyer. I was in New York then, going over the final galleys of a novel that, for eleven years, had weighed my spirit like a cow carried on a peasant's back to market. A childhood buddy who had risen through the buzz-sawed branches of CBS — not just clinging but prospering — agreed, after much browbeating, to introduce Sawyer to me. She showed up in the midevening at the eastside high-rise where I was a guest. The doorman announced her arrival over the intercom with uncharacteristic tremulousness, prompting me to pour a fresh vodka. Beautiful, oh yes, in her sorority-girl plaid pants and white sweater, she nevertheless entered shyly, like someone whose reputation had spent more time at parties than she had. She was there in the room with me, she had stepped through the screen, she was flesh-and-blood, not merely skittering molecules in a TV set! For the next hour we discussed the state of television, the state of politics, and the state of New York, everything, in fact, except my first novel, A Fan's Notes, which she claimed, in other company, to have read.
Between the s and the s, several ivy league colleges had a very strange requirement for all their incoming freshmen students. Harvard, Yale, Wellesley College, Vassar as well as Brown University, were among the elite American colleges that asked all the young men and women enrolled in their first year, to pose nude. He wrote:. I reported to a windowless room on an upper floor, where men dressed in crisp white garments instructed me to remove all of my clothes. And then — and this is the part I still have trouble believing — they attached metal pins to my spine. There was no actual piercing of skin, only of dignity, as four-inch metal pins were affixed with adhesive to my vertebrae at regular intervals from my neck down. I was positioned against a wall; a floodlight illuminated my pin-spiked profile and a camera captured it.