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’60 Minutes’ Correspondents to Stay: Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker

’60 Minutes’ Correspondents to Stay: Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker

The three remaining correspondents at CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes will remain with the show for its next season. In a memo to the show’s staff, Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker and Jon Wertheim said that, while they had a hard time deciding whether to stay at 60 Minutes after the ouster of top producers and correspondents like Tanya Simon, Scott Pelley, Cecilia Vega and Sharyn Alfonsi, they have opted to stay with the show. “We feared that our returning might be construed as an endorsement of the existing power structure. That is simply, categorically not the case,” they wrote. “Here’s why we’re are staying: We don’t want to see 60 Minutes die.” Read their memo, below: TO All our colleagues at 60 FROM Lesley, Bill and Jon We have had a hard time deciding whether to stay at 60 Minutes. We’re still deeply upset by the firings of Tanya and Draggan, strong leaders who everyone respected. As far as we can tell – because no explanation has ever been offered, they were expelled because they fought …

Stahl House for sale for first time since case study house was built

Stahl House for sale for first time since case study house was built

For decades, the Stahl House in the Hollywood Hills has been a rarity — a globally known icon of Midcentury Modernism and Los Angeles glamour, still in the hands of the family who commissioned it in 1959. But now it’s for sale. The asking price is $25 million, which might seem a startling figure for a two-bedroom, 2,300-square-foot home on a snug lot. But that figure might not surprise lovers of modernist architecture who know it as Case Study House #22. It was designed for the Stahl family by architect Pierre Koenig, captured on black-and-white film by photographer Julius Shulman and has been admired worldwide ever since. The Architect’s Newspaper called it “one of the world’s most famous buildings.” Los Angeles magazine called Shulman’s image “perhaps the most famous picture ever taken of Los Angeles.” “There are no comps for the Stahl house. It’s incomparable,” said William Baker, architecture director for the real estate firm the Agency Beverly Hills. The home was included in the company’s fall catalog Nov. 12. By Friday afternoon, Baker said, …