margin: 0; } outline: none; -webkit-text-fill-color: white; } On this site which analyses celebrities, Tippy is well known as one of the top stars. textarea:-webkit-autofill, position: absolute; background-position: -224px -48px; } } .ui-datepicker-rtl .ui-datepicker-group { .ui-icon-arrowreturn-1-e { She was a winning interview subject on television programs. background-position: -128px -32px; background-position: -192px -32px; .ui-icon-search { He had been widowed in1977, and he met Tippy during a visit to the Big Sky Resort. .ui-slider { width: 100%; I've heard many wonderful stories about her from my sister-in-law Kristin Kern. Tippy Stringer Huntley Conrad, who became a Washington personality during the 1950s as a comely weather girl issuing forecasts on the local NBC affiliate, and who left the city for New York when she married television newsman Chet Huntley, died Oct. 1 at her home in Los Angeles. padding-bottom: 10px; height: 7px; Thanks a lot.I really can't place Arthur Stringer right now but some of my family was in IL in the 1800s and early 1900s.If you should find out more on Tippy I would really appreciate if you would advise me.Is she still living? .ui-icon-carat-1-se { /*! } clear: right; William Conrad died in 1994 after 14 years of marriage. border: none; } } cursor: n-resize; } Lewis Tipton Stringer Huntley, better known as "Tippy" Conrad, was born on July 15, 1930, in Evanston, Illinois, USA, to Arthur Campbell and Lewis "Louie" Frances Stringer. NBC, David Brinkley and New York University, where the Chet Huntley Memorial Lectures are held each . Upon Huntley's retirement from NBC news in 1970, the couple founded the Big Sky Resort outside Bozeman, in his home state of Montana. position: absolute; } } .ui-datepicker .ui-datepicker-prev span, line-height: 1.3; opacity: 0.7; background-position: -128px -192px; } width: 2.2em; * "I'm very fond of crinolines because they make your waist look sosmall," she said. .ui-state-default, -webkit-text-fill-color: white; text-decoration: none; } border-collapse: collapse; background-position: -160px -96px; .ui-resizable-s { } .ui-icon-power { } .ui-icon-battery-2 { } .ui-icon-circle-triangle-n { background: #ffffff url(/wp-content/themes/ALZinfo/less/jqui/images/ui-bg_flat_75_ffffff_40x100.png) 50% 50% repeat-x; .ui-widget-header .ui-priority-primary { margin: 5px -2px 5px -2px; * http://jqueryui.com border-bottom-width: 0; * Released under the MIT license. * http://jqueryui.com .ui-icon-arrowrefresh-1-n { .donate_form .main { background-position: -32px -32px; * Copyright 2013 jQuery Foundation and other contributors .ui-state-active a:link, When television was in its infancy, Ms. Huntley was among the first local TV personalities to become a familiar face in Washington. } * http://jqueryui.com text-decoration: none; position: absolute; } .ui-icon-arrowrefresh-1-w { .ui-datepicker-rtl .ui-datepicker-buttonpane button { background-position: -48px -80px; /* Layout helpers background-position: 0 -80px; .ui-state-error a, } } Grief researchers say holding that missing funeral service, even a year or more later, can still help us heal. border: none; .ui-icon-arrowthick-2-ne-sw { /* RTL support */ .ui-buttonset .ui-button { } background-position: -16px -96px; ----------------------------------*/ * jQuery UI Progressbar @VERSION background-position: -64px -112px; background: #8d8d8d; line-height: normal; width: 1.8em; height: 100px; background-position: 0 -48px; .ui-menu { width: 3.7em; width: 100%; width: 3.4em; * } float: right; In 1980, she met and married another nationally known figure: WilliamConrad, an actor who first rose to prominence as the voice of MarshalMatt Dillon on the radio program "Gunsmoke." .ui-icon-calendar { .ui-resizable-autohide .ui-resizable-handle { * http://jquery.org/license margin: 0 2.5rem; .ui-icon-triangle-1-w { background-position: -48px 0; In between, she raced tothe Shoreham Hotel's swanky Blue Room nightclub, where she changedcostumes to sing in two nightly floor shows. $(this).addClass('orangered-background'); * http://jquery.org/license position: absolute; } } } } background-position: -64px -16px; She majored in theater, starring in several university productions, and in 1951 was crowned homecoming queen. .ui-icon-minusthick { background-position: -32px -192px; } } 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. She is most remembered for Wrc-TV. * background-position: -112px -160px; .ui-button-icons-only .ui-icon { .ui-state-disabled .ui-icon { } padding: .5em 1em; background-position: -112px -32px; cursor: text; .ui-menu .ui-icon { font-weight: bold; margin-top: -8px; .ui-icon-mail-closed { His zodiac sign is Sagittarius. } } When Stringers career began at CBS Radio in 1955, she was one of only a handful of female network news staffers. } .ui-datepicker-rtl .ui-datepicker-buttonpane { position: absolute; /*! } Stringer continued to work in advertising, radio, and television for the first years of her marriage to Huntley but the demands of being a wife and hostess to the increasingly successful broadcaster during the event-filled 1960s eventually required her to abandon her own career. * Released under the MIT license. .ui-button-text-icons .ui-button-text { } } } border-top: none; She married prominent broadcaster Chet Huntley in 1959. font-weight: bold; display: none; Her parents graduated from the University of Chicago, where they met and married. color: white !important; border: 0; margin: -10px 0 0 0; font-size: 0.1px; z-index: 9999 !important; .ui-resizable { .ui-corner-bottom, 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. .ui-datepicker .ui-datepicker-header { * http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Progressbar#theming Warning: This form can only be used if JavaScript is enabled in your browser. * Released under the MIT license. American TV News Tippy Stringer Huntley was born Lewis Tipton Stringer on 15th July, 1930 in Evanston, Ill and passed away on 1st Oct 2010 Los Angeles, California aged 80. } margin-left: -0.6em; /* button elements seem to need a little more width */ white-space: nowrap; height: 9px; font-family: FontAwesome; cursor: pointer; 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. In 1995, Mrs. Conrad founded the Stringer Foundation to support causesincluding public broadcasting and reproductive education. } body .ui-tooltip { border-right: none; vertical-align: middle; * jQuery UI Resizable @VERSION */ top: 50%; * overflow: hidden; } Mrs. Conrad was noticed for her looks and magnetism while performingonstage in student plays. .ui-datepicker-multi .ui-datepicker-group { About American Actor William Conrad was born John William Cann Jr. on 27th September, 1920 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA and passed away on 11th Feb 1994 Los Angeles, California, USA aged 73. .ui-datepicker-rtl .ui-datepicker-prev { top: 50%; * float: left; } $(this).removeClass('orangered-background'); top: -5px; } .ui-icon-clipboard { position: relative; input.textfield.otherdonate:-webkit-autofill:focus, overflow: hidden; Tippy Stringer Huntley rose to prime prominence as a TV News. background: #ffffff; They fell in love and later married in 1959 and lived in New York until they retired. line-height: 0; } border-radius: 8px; * http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Theming/API .ui-slider.ui-state-disabled .ui-slider-handle, border-right: 0; .ui-icon-arrowreturn-1-w { border-left-width: 1px; width: 16px; .ui-icon-arrow-1-w { .ui-corner-bottom, .ui-icon { width: 2.4em; .ui-state-hover a:link, .orangered-background { .ui-datepicker td span, .ui-icon-plusthick { border-right-width: 0; } ----------------------------------*/ Press Esc to cancel. /* Change Autocomplete styles in Chrome*/ Ms. Stringer recorded herself speaking as the senator that was aired at meet the press events. right: auto; } text-indent: -9999999px; width: 12px; /*! .ui-dialog .ui-dialog-titlebar { line-height: normal; margin-left: -8px; } outline: none; background-color:#ac3d05 !important; .ui-corner-right, ----------------------------------*/ .ui-widget-content .ui-state-active, Marriage Huntley's first marriage, to Ingrid Rolin, produced two daughters and ended in divorce in 1959. background: #aaaaaa url(/wp-content/themes/ALZinfo/less/jqui/images/ui-bg_flat_0_aaaaaa_40x100.png) 50% 50% repeat-x; Stringer's 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.Stringer's work in television led her to meet Chet Huntley in 1957, just as the Huntley-Brinkley Report was becoming the flagship NBC nightly news program. .ui-accordion .ui-accordion-icons { } background-position: -96px -144px; */ background-position: -80px -192px; text-decoration: none; .ui-selectable-helper { } .ui-icon-volume-on { } * http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Slider#theming In 1995 Tippy Stringer founded the Stringer Foundation, which has funded public broadcasting, literacy groups, animal protection groups, woman's shelter, and reproductive education.One friend noted 'Once you met Tippy you never forgot her.' * textarea.input-icon > i:-webkit-autofill:focus, That year, she ranked among the firsts women to be seen on market news. } .ui-datepicker select.ui-datepicker-month-year { .ui-corner-bl { left: 50%; .ui-button-text-icons .ui-icon, margin: 0; */ .ui-icon-triangle-1-ne { In the 21st century, it's not just urns and gravestones anymore. height: 2em; background-position: 0 -176px; .ui-icon-arrowthick-1-sw { .ui-icon-person { .ui-widget-header .ui-state-hover, * margin-top: -8px; font-weight: normal; text-align: right; } } You will pay for one full hour to run our entire laboratory. } .ui-icon-pencil { .ui-slider-horizontal .ui-slider-range {