Word: station
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carrying a wounded squad mate on a stretcher for a mile to the evacuation area. Hot shrapnel severs the leg muscles of another Marine so badly that doctors later say that he should have been unable to walk, yet he runs more than 200 yards to a medical-aid station. A man with a smashed knee crawls 40 yards to a mortar position, props himself on his elbows, and helps load shells for five hours before reporting his wound...
Last week, just 16 hours after he retired as chief of the Los Angeles police department, Tom Reddin ran a Norelco over his afternoon stubble, popped in his contact lenses, tucked a microphone into the front of his gold shirt and took over as evening news anchorman of station KTLA...
Finally, he worked his way into an awkward five-minute overview of the world that he had been writing for three days. It positioned him somewhat to the right of his reputation as a liberal policeman but slightly to the left of the conservative attitude maintained by the station's majority stockholder, Gene Autry. Reddin's prime target was the dissidents: "I am fed up with the militant, regardless of color or political persuasion, who is constantly on the attack. The promoters of urban guerrilla warfare are as much the enemy of our society as the soldier...
Electronic Addiction. At the end of the premiere, Station Manager Doug Finley found Rookie Reddin "so good" that he cried ("Well, maybe not cried, but I certainly lumped up"). Reddin was more straight-shooting. Before the show he had quipped: "I believe each man should start at the top of his chosen profession." Afterwards he said, "You know, it's not as easy as it looks." Despite two weeks of video-taped dry runs, he did not transmit the Cronkite-like "casualness" that he had promised. His normally easy Irish smile switched on when it should have been turned...
...opening night at least, KTLA got what it was paying $100,000 a year for: a fourfold increase in the ratings. In a town addicted to electronic news (the supper-hour local report runs two hours on one station), KTLA had fallen into fifth place after a rival station wooed away its top announcer, George Putnam, an archconservative who never fails to put America first. The salary that won George was $300,000 (Walter Cronkite earns something over $200,000). Even if Reddin does not improve over his shaky shakedown, he has an escalator contract guaranteeing...