Word: wgbh
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Lyons was born in Dorchester on September 1, 1897, and grew up on a chicken farm in Plymouth County. He received his bachelor's degree from Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1918 and began working for the Boston Globe the next year. Lyons joined WGBH radio when the station was founded in 1951 and was widely respected for his news commentaries aired on the public radio and television network...
...tribe have one recourse under the law. An act of Congress could circumvent the immigration laws and allow the Kirghiz to come to America. Their cause is not hopeless, for the Kirghiz have generated considerable publicity: WGBH recently aired a television program about them; the Boston Globe ran a front-page story about them in December; Reuters News Service has carried stories about them, as has the Associated Press. Indeed, it is because of the AP stories that Qul and his two sons have received an invitation from the Institute for Alaskan Affairs, a non-profit group in Fairbanks...
...Monday morning phone call from local radio station WGBH woke Nicolaas Bloembergen and his wife, Deli, but it was well worth it. Bloembergen, the interviewer said, had just been awarded the 1981 Nobel Prize in physics--an honor the Gade University Professor later called "recognition for a lifetime of work...
Summer School students can join an eclectic crowd at the Center that includes doctors from Massachusetts General Hospital, staffers from WGBH TV, and even some crusty sea-faring alumni for day sailing, private lessons, and weekly barbeques. "We get quite an interesting social group together down here for the summer," Tarlow says. "Plenty of fun boy-girl stuff and all that...
...from perfect, certainly, but it does accomplish what it was intended to do: provide an alternative to the general dreariness of the commercial networks. If the Reagan budget cuts go through and new money is not found, the system will begin to shrink, and eventually could disappear. Warns WGBH's general manager Henry Becton: "In two years public television could be a pale shadow of what it was-with nothing to replace it." -By Gerald Clarke...