Word: wbz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...white youths roamed the streets of South Boston today, protesting court-ordered integration." Network correspondents, who were not a party to the speak-softly agreement, found that there was occasional disagreement between them and local TV newsmen. When NBC Field Producer Robert Toombs checked in at the network affiliate, WBZ-TV, a station employee who had been watching the network's reports yelled, "You're blowing the whole thing out of proportion!" Complained NBC Correspondent Robert Hager: "My God, South Boston is going to hell, and everybody here says things are quiet...
...Nelson is a PhD candidate in Physics, a past Republican Congressional candidate in the 4th District, and host of a WBZ talk show...
...strongest denunciation was voiced by Senator Bulger, who accused newsmen of making a "tempest in a teapot." They seek martyrdom in this "tempest," he said, in order to profit from the campus lecture circuit. Jack Kelly of WBZ news answered the attack by stating, "I have no desire to visit any campus. I spent four years on one; that was fine." If sources do continue to dry up, Kelly may find the lecture circuit is his only recourse...
...Real Estate Broker Andelman, 36. They were "discovered" four years ago when an executive from station WUNR overheard their loud banter in a Boston bar and invited them to sound off at a microphone. Sports Huddle was such an instant hit that six months later it was transferred to WBZ, a 50,000-watt station heard in 32 states and Canada. Before long, the station, which also broadcasts the Boston Bruins' games, had some grievances of its own: McCarthy dismissed Bruin President Weston Adams Jr. as "the biggest jerk I ever met," while Andelman described Boston Garden, the Bruins...
While campaigning in Minneapolis, George McGovern brought an audience at the University of Minnesota to stunned silence and tears by playing a tape recording. It was the account of an anonymous Viet Nam veteran, who on Labor Day called Jerry Williams' telephone talk show on Boston's WBZ. Williams gave the tape to McGovern after he appeared on the program last week. Excerpts...