Word: play-by-play
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Compensatory Fees. For the first time a play-by-play account of how one of the windfall deals worked was furnished by the contractors themselves. Three Washington builders-Herman W. Hutman, Earl J. Preston and Bryan Gordon Jr.-told how they got $13,846,000 in FHA-insured loans to put up the Shirley-Duke apartments in Alexandria, Va. To meet FHA requirements that the sponsor must have put in 10% of the estimated cost of the project, the builders reported that 1) they had spent $750,000 for architect's fees instead...
WHRB will broadcast tonight's basketball game with Brown from Providence with Dave Levi and Steve Banker doing the play-by-play, starting at 8:25 p.m. WHRB will also broadcast ten more Crimson basketball games this season. The remainder of the broadcasting schedule: Feb. 3, Amherst; Feb. 6, Navy; Feb 10, Boston College; Feb. 13, Dartmouth; Feb. 17, at Dartmouth; Feb. 20, at Princeton; Feb. 24, Brown; Feb. 27, Cornell; March 6, at Yale; March 8, Penn...
...this to say: "Live Them Again is a parlor game matching the fiendish delights of crossword puzzles, Ask Me Another and Twenty Questions. Do you know, for instance, who inspired the quip, 'There but for the grace of God goes God?' Who started network on-the-field play-by-play broadcasting? Who was Herbert Hoover's running mate in 1932-described by H. L. Mencken as 'half Indian and half windmill...
Funnyman Brown, 60, takes his new job on Manhattan's station WPIX with deadly seriousness: "I love baseball, and I'm never going to make it the butt of my jokes." Joe broadcasts pre-game and post-game interviews, plus three innings of play-by-play on TV, and two innings on radio. His delivery is intensely partisan ("Come on, you Yankees, get those bats off your shoulders!"), and he sometimes drifts from the action on the diamond into patriotic outbursts ("I've seen plenty of other countries, but believe me, America is the best...
Evan Berlack '56 and Dave Levi '54 will do the play-by-play description of the games, direct from Soldiers Field. The three games that will not be broadcast are the April 20 game with Northeastern, the June 3 contest with B.C., and the June 10 Yale game...