Word: wwj
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fozzle & Pleezy. Detroit's Sonny Eliot sees even more. Daily on WWJ he describes the weather as "colder than the seat of the last man on a short toboggan" or "uncomfortable as a swordfish with an ingrown nose." He sums up his forecasts as "fozzle" (fog and drizzle) crazy" (crisp and hazy), "pleezy" (pleasantly breezy) or "snowsy" (snow and lousy). He is thorny (thoroughly corny), but his report is the city's longest running (16 years) weather show and earns him $45,000 a year...
...Hugh Downs was program director at Lima's WLOK, moved on to WWJ in Detroit as an announcer before going into the Army in World War II. (He collapsed after a four-week basic training course and got a medical discharge.) During an eleven-year stretch with NBC in Chicago, he got into TV, announced for Kukla, Fran and Ollie, followed that with 894 hours on Arlene Francis' Home show in New York. In addition to his night work on the Paar show, he runs a daytime TV game called Concentration, also has a weekend post on radio...