Word: teddy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...girls grabbed an extra tape of their show, stuck it in a plain brown envelope and sent it in, as Teddi puts it, with a "messy covering letter complete with typos. The whole thing cost us $3.95, plus mailing." As luck would have it, the Peabody judges had decided not to present a radio-news award, but when they heard the Mickie-Teddi tape, they changed their minds...
...divide up the news-gathering duties throughout the workweek. It depends on who's busier. "We never know which one will show up," says the station's general manager, Ray Stanfield, "but one of them always does." Mickie, married to a doctor, is the mother of two. Teddi, wife of a lawyer, has three children. Both admit that before the Peabody Award their husbands were somewhat lukewarm about their careers, but things are different now: their husbands are so impressed that they may start listening to the show...
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...
Some radio stations spend hundreds of dollars on Peabody presentations, but for Mickie and Teddi, it was hardly more than a casual afterthought. WRNG's program manager gave them an entry blank he had lying around...