TIC TOC May 1970 ED KINGSLEY'S RETIREMENT BOSCHER RECOVERING FROM ENDS 39 YEAR CAREER AT WTIC INJURIES RECEIVED AT UCONN Ed Kingsley ends a 39-year career Lynn Boscher is recovering at home from injuries he with WTIC when he retires at the end received May 13 when struck by a student demonstrator. of this month. Boscher was ~truck when he refused to surrender film Ed's retirement will coincide with he had taken of students in front of the student­ the retirement of Thelma Kingsley occupied University o~ Connecticut administration who has worked for the Hartford Jew­ building. Police 12•ter arrested sophomore Larry A. ish Federation for the past several Bowler, 19, of Stamford, and charged him with breach of years. peace by assualt. His case has·not yet come to trial. For Ed and Thelma, retirement will Boscher was rushed to Hartford Hospital where he mean first a summer at their home at underwent surgery tc· repair fractures below his left Old Lyme Shores, then a visit with eye the following d~y • their daughter, son-in-law and .~---------------------------------------~ grandchildren in Oslo, Norway in HUGE, MODERN TV MOBILE UNIT September. The family is in Norway WILL BOW AT STATE CONVENTIONS while Ed's son-in-law represents an American firm' there, having been WTIC-TV 1 s new telE',vlsion mobile unit has been deliver­ transferred from Georgia sometime ed and visited' by most of the staff. ~o. As a result, Ed says the three One of the most modern and completely equipped units andchildren have developed an in­ in operation anywhere in the United States, the WTIC-TV teresting combination of Georgian, vehicle will provide the station with the means to tele­ British and Norwegian accents when vise events from many near and distant points in the they speak English. southern New England area served by Channel 3. A native of Woonsocket, R.I., Ed The mobile unit is equipped with four color cameras~ ~as educated in the Newport schools a color videotape recorder, self-contained power equip­ arid at the Eastern Radio Institute ment and an elevator. It is 35 feet long and weighs ln Boston. He was a real radio 15 tons. pioneer, learning what he could The station plans to use it for the first time to from ham operators as early as 1914. televise the Democratic and Republican state political He received his first amateur li­ conventions in June. cense in 1920 and this year will be hvnored by the Quarter Century Wire­ EHPLICH HONORED less Assn. for his 50 years as a BV 2 UNIVERSITIES radio operator. Ed took a sea route to WTIC, Governor Dempsey an~ George Ehrlich were honored for serving in the Merchant Marines on their contributions to the University of Connecticut at one of the first beam trawlers ever the university's spc·r .s awards dinner at the Park Plaza used on voyages to the Grand Banks Hotel in New Haven hay 8. and in the U.S. Navy. He remembers About 500 persons attended the dinner to honor George his first voyage of 28 days vividly and the Governor and to hear Adolph Rupp, 40-year basket­ s i nee 11 1 was seasick for 32 of those ball coach at the University of Kentucky, speak. 28 dc;1ys. 11 Earlier in the same day, George received an award There's been a lot to remember in naming him an honorary alumni athlete of the University the past 39 years, including handling of Hartford. Also honored were sportswriters Bill 0 first UHF transmission ever-made Newell of The Courant, Art McGinley of The Timefi and • torn an airplane to the ground in the Earl Yost of The Manchester HeFala • early 1930s and struggling up 24 flights of stairs in the Travelers with storage batteries to provide WTI C with power .for sever'!~ days ~2- ED BEGLEY 1901-1970 NOTES FROM~~ The following tribute to Ed Begley by actor Tony Round and round .•. party after party .. ~ndall appeared in The New York Times. Ed Begley was a powerful actor of great simplicity Cake .•• candles ..• the soft feminine and truth. He was something of a true primitive. By voices of at least half of the female that I mean that he was self-taught. Indeed, he did staff of 1TIC ••• and a very surprised not come to New York to become an actor unt i1 he was ,;.1d s 1 i ght l y embarassed CHUCK ALBERT past 40. So far as I know, he received no artistic celebrated his birthday on May 1. It instruction of any kind. pays to be popular. But unlike many primitives, he was neither provin­ cial nor tricky. His instincts led him only on the Ruby (40) arid Silver (25) anniver­ narrow path most people find only after their taste saries ••. JOHN DE LISA on May 6 and has been refined, He had a wonderful voice, one of ROSS MILLER on May 15 ..• enormous the richest I have ever heard. And he never exhibited floral arrangements, numerous gifts, his voice or used it.for its own sake, to show off crowding people and delicious food .•• with; so that audiences probably never noted how OLIVE JOHNSON is turning out to be beautiful it was. Nor do I remember any critic ever quite the caterer. mentioning it. I first became aware of him in the 1947 movie 11 Boom­ Another 'tlCer has deserted us for erang11 in which he gave a remarkable portrait of the sunny beaches of Florida .•. CHRiS joviality, venality and fear. As in all good acting, RIPPLE left to join her husband in these qualities were not acted, indicated, demonstrat­ West Palm Beach .•• he was recently ed; they were simply there. transferred by his company. A going But it was in Arthur Miller's 11All My Sons•• that he away party was held for both Chris and first showed the American theater what he was made of, URSULA TETREAULT .•. Ursula plans to and he was a star from then on. One of my great spend the summer relaxing and reading memories which will stay with me until I die was that a tour book of Connecticut in prepara­ second act curtain. The guilt, the admission, the tion for the visit of her parents from ~'•ful truth as his son (Arthur Kennedy-equally unfor­ Germany in the fall. They will spend ~cttable) flayed him; again these qualities were not several months visiting and touring 11 acted, 11 they were horribly real. There was no the country. applause when the curtain fell, nor did the audience get up to smoke and talk. Only silence. He made us Lest you feel our library has been all feel as guilty as he was. completely unstaffed •.• we still have Of course, it was 11 1nherit the Wind'' that he had his GINNY JESIONKA .• and now DOTTY BATES is biggest triumph and it was there I knew him. We dress­ an assistant music librarian ••• and ed together for 17 months. The role, based on William BARBARA INGRAHAM, Mr. DeLisa's J~nnings Bryan, is a good one but rather thinly written. secretary. Begley put flesh and blood and thought and feeling where there was really little more than what Walter Other new faces .•. SUE MC GOVERN f~err noted as a political cartoon. I believe no one answering Ross Miller's phone .•. and eise who played this part was able to do that. All not folk-singing, not humming, but the others I saw succumbed to playing only what was b:>oth-announci n~ MI KE OGDEN 0 written: ~ pompous windbag. But Begley was not pompous. With dignity and sweetness, he meant every Yhe luck of the Irish must have been word he said. A moment that never failed to touch me with KATHY FLAHERTY as her week of a 1- in some 600 performances: the natural goodness that most rainy weather at Dennisport on shone through him as he said, 11The Bible tells us that the Cape, turned to sun and she came God forgives his children. And we, the children of back with a tan that left all of us God, should forgive each other. 11 11 green11 with envy. It's too bad the People seem surprised to learn that in life he was a same leprechauns weren't watching over gay, merry soul, very funny, much given to practical her boss on his vacation. jokes. He had known his roaring days and the admira­ ~n of the ladies. He had known his sad days, too, We snould have quite a few baby .t he was not capable of bitterness. He had a won­ announcements during the next few derful energy that showed in his great blue eyes and months at least one first-timer ••• forced him to enjoy every minute of life, whether he and several old-hands at the baby gan'"~· wi I led it or not. Herman Shumlin once called him 11 clean-hearted Ed Begley•• and that's what he was. -3- STEELE IS BOXING DE BEAR SCORED, MAN OF THE YEAR HEARD BIRDIES A large crowd of boxing and Bob Larrye deBear not only scored one 11 birdie11 playing Steele buffs gathered at Valle's golf May 13 .• he heard birdies on the 10th hole at Steak House May 5 to see Steele Banner Lodge. honored as the Connecticut Boxing The newsman was teamed with New Haven Journal-Courier Guild's Man of the Year. reporter Jim Mutrie against WT!C's Bill Mill and State Among the boxing lumi·naries Finance Commissioner Leo Donahue during the annual attending the dinner were former outing of the "Mulas" an organization of political champions Kid Kaplan, Willie Pep, leaders.