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...Edwards, when stories were illustrated with childlike drawings or photos held up to the camera by the anchorman; Ronald Reagan doing a Mortimer Snerd impression as the mystery guest on What's My Line?, Vladimir Zworykin, one of TV's technological pioneers, being interviewed by former Radio Announcer Ben Grauer in a 1948 oddity called The Story of Television. "Ben," says Zworykin, in heavily accented English, "it is like fever. When the television bug bites you, you never can stop working...
Frequent whistles broke up the action in the second half of the period, as referees assessed four penalties to each side. With Theran Welsh serving two minutes for holding, Wisconsin narrowed the Terrier lead to one, on a short-handed goal by Les Grauer...
Died. Ben Grauer, 68, NBC's eloquent radio announcer, TV reporter and moderator; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. During his 43 years on the air, Grauer covered countless disasters and triumphs. He preferred radio to TV because "you decided the mental picture the audience was going to get, and you could give your own emphasis and play downs...
...Jacqueline Susann and Phyllis Cerf, Bennett's widow, with her steady escort, former New York Mayor Robert Wagner. Then the door opened and in walked a man who introduced himself: "I'm Martha Mitchell's husband." "Yes, how well you look," said Radio-TV Announcer Ben Grauer to former Attorney General John Mitchell. Barely unpacked after her move from Washington, Martha Mitchell was warmly welcomed by some, though others in the mostly Democratic crowd muttered about her presence. Later she caused an excited flurry by asking if she could use the phone. It turned out, however, that...
Author Reginald Rese's play is hampered by a documentary style that lets a narrator (Ben Grauer) appear to talk more than the principals, and by the author's constant, heavy-handed insistence that his protagonists are innocent victims of political and race prejudice, thus never allowing the viewer to draw that conclusion on his own. The prosecutor is shown as ruthlessly concerned with his own ambitions, the Governor of Massachusetts is a millionaire, hence clearly untrustworthy, witnesses are bought and browbeaten. Regardless of whether or not all this black villainy is true in detail (and Playwright Rose...