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Last week Eddie's story and description were broadcast as the third of a new NBC crime documentary series called Wanted (NBC, Fri. 10 p.m. E.D.T.).* A few minutes after Cleveland's WTAM finished airing Wanted,, the station switchboard began buzzing with phone calls from people who were sure they had seen Eddie in town in the last few months...
Captain David Kerr, chief of Cleveland's homicide squad, set a close watch on WTAM's switchboard. On Wednesday, five days after the broadcast, an anonymous phone caller reported that Eddie was hiding out in a room in a house at 3619 East 74th Street. A detective and two policemen, sent to investigate, found Eddie, fully armed, hiding under a bed. They ordered him to come out, but he decided to blast his way out. The cops shot and killed Eddie Sadowski where...
Carloads of spectators braved the rain yesterday to attend the annual Waban spectacle, only to be turned away by wet grounds. The Wellesley switchboard was flooded with calls from other prospective watchers checking on the postponement...
...interruption, or any explanation, the sportscast came back on the air. Red-faced KECA officials descended on the culprit, a mild-mannered, 37-year-old Canadian engineer named Lionel Roy Flook. Marching him to the front door, they hurried back to answer the phone calls which were jamming the switchboard. Spluttered' one top executive: "He broke all ethics for engineers. I've never heard of anything like it in all my years in radio...
Husk and Fraser are not dazzled by the millions of dollars of property they protect. They always remember that "the kids come first." Indeed, it is often the kids who turn in timely alarms. The University switchboard hooks up directly with the Cambridge fire station across the street. University engineers, janitors, maids, and proctors turn in their share of the 10 to 12 alarms that the Cambridge firemen receive from the University in an average year...