Description: Rep. Lucile Hicks receives letters from constituents lamenting tax increases and state spending. Marjorie Clapprood expresses her admiration for Hicks.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/17/1989
Description: Harvard University Hasty Pudding Club names Lucille Ball the 1988 Woman of the Year. Harvard University marching band plays "I Love Lucy" theme song as they accompany Lucy along the street. Footage of the actress accepting the award on stage. Reporter Marcus Jones gives a brief retrospective on the 76-year-old actress's rise to fame before "I Love Lucy," and off-screen involvement in radio and Broadway performances. Clips from feature films that Ball had roles in alongside Catherine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, and Fred Astaire. Still image of Ball with Marx Brothers. Clip of Lucy and husband Ricky (Desi Arnaz) announcing pregnancy. Ball tells Hasty Pudding Club a story about inspiration for a chocolate comedy routine. Closing sequence of slapstick clips from "I Love Lucy."
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/19/1988
Description: Det. Carlos Luna takes witness stand and pleads his Fifth Amendment rights instead of naming informant who implicated Albert Lewin in death of Sherman Griffiths. Lewin enters courtroom. Willie Davis.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/08/1990
Description: Christopher Lydon commentaries from Washington DC, on national politics.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/26/1977
Description: Lydon sampler of Washington DC commentaries. Variety of topics and interviews tangential to early days of Carter presidency. (1977)
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 1977
Description: Lydon sampler of Washington DC commentaries. Variety of topics in national politics and foreign affairs. (1977)
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Description: 1984 arts compilation. Benjamin Zander and Youth Chamber Orchestra. Cartoonist Robert Osborn. Falcone piano making. Kurzweil synthesizer with Herman Weiss, Christopher Stowens, Lyle Mays. Pianist Ran Blake on how his love of Hitchcock movies inspires music.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 1984
Description: 1985 arts compilation. Central Square through Jeff Dunn photographs. Anthony DiBonaventura plays Domenico Scarlatti. Poet Felicia Lamport. BPL director Arthur Curley. Composer Stephen Albert.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 1985
Description: William Wadsworth on Atlantic magazine. BPL branches become victim of Proposition 2 1/2. Sen. David Locke, Richard Rowland, Thomas Winship on Reagan (“Reagan makes good comedy”). Pops conductor John Williams. John Updike on Red Sox strike (“I get more reading done”).
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/17/1981
Description: Poetry reading and interview with South African poet Dennis Brutus. Tip O'Neill on Reagan administration cuts in social programs. (1982)
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 1982