Playboy Interview: Bryant Gumbel

December, 1986

Bryant Gumbel began the day as he had done for the past four years, leaving home before dawn, riding in a company car through the barren city streets to a midtown skyscraper. As always, he was dressed impeccably: Robert Stock suit, monogrammed cuffs, matching tie and socks. And under his arm, as he rode the elevator to his third-floor office, a sheaf of precisely penned notes--homework, he called it--encapsulating the lives of the people he would interview in America's bedrooms and living rooms...

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