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They look like two typical blonde housewives-except maybe prettier-who probably spend their days shuttling between the hairdresser and the bridge table. Housewives they are, but Mickie Silverstein and Teddi Levison are also news reporters for radio station WRNG in Atlanta. In a day when the networks dominate broadcast news, they have accomplished the near impossible for a local station: last week they won a George Foster Peabody Award for "a significant illustration of radio used to investigate and report on community problems."* Their prize-winning program was a half-hour documentary on strong-arm police tactics in Atlanta...
Their show, "When Will It End?" grew out of an incident involving three young blacks who had been arrested on a Saturday night. While being booked on drunk and disorderly charges, the three were beaten by five policemen. When they heard about the incident, Mickie and Teddi began digging. They interviewed the youths, checked hospital and medical records, even found a secret witness-a scared young white man who was in the station house at the time of the beating. As the two were fitting the pieces together, another incident came up. During a rock concert in Atlanta...
...Girl and Her Songs (Teddi King; RCA Victor). One of the best singing technicians in the business offers an imaginative tour of love's stormy and placid seasons, in a voice with a fine dramatic range. Teddi's best effort: a refurbished edition of Dorothy Fields's and Jimmy McHugh's Porgy, which here glitters as brightly as Gershwin's more famous exercise on a fellow of the same name...
...Miss Teddi King (Storyville LP). A new jazz singer is news, and this news is good. Songstress King has a smoky-sounding voice that conveys much of jazz music's indescribable wistfulness, the birthright of Billie Holiday. Ella Fitzgerald & Co. Among her eight tunes: I Saw Stars, Love Is Here to Stay...