Word: broadcasting
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Claiming they had suffered "embarrassment and mental agony," Robert Welch, 64, president of the John Birch Society, two aides and the society itself sued NBC in Fort Worth for $8,000,000 in damages. A May 20 broadcast by Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, said the plaintiffs, falsely reported that the FBI had arrested "parties engaged in selling arms to the society." Said their lawyer: "More than likely, the broadcast went out all over the U.S., and we could have sued almost anywhere, but we wanted a more favorable climate, as distinguished from a climate that is ultraliberal...
Allen has been gabbing for pay ever since his student days at the University of Alabama, when, as Mel Israel, he broadcast Alabama baseball and football games and was so renowned for his glibness and precocity (he matriculated at 15) that he was nicknamed Skyrocket. Son of a dry-goods merchant, he studied law but before he started practice he got a call to big-time broadcasting and could not resist it. Almost at once he was assigned to the Yankees, and the Yankees have been a major part of his life for 25 years. He has never married...
...seventh and deciding game will be played in St. Louis today, and will be broadcast by Channel 4 and WEZE radio...
Today's contest will be televised on channel 4 and broadcast on WEZE, 1260, beginning at 1:45 p.m. The Cards are 19-10 favorites to win the game--and their first world championship since...
Later, in a political broadcast costarring former Vice-President Richard M. Nixon, Goldwater delivered a free-wheeling attack on liberals who "fawn over social psychologists" while scorning policemen...