Ingredients of broadcast journalism. WBBM AM’s Donn Pearlman tells his story to the Naperville City Star (July 27): “In 1965, when he worked for $1.25 an hour at a 500-watt station in Lawrence, Kansas…the boss required that he tend a herd of cattle in a field right outside the control room. Right on the program log, next to his broadcast duties, were notes to ‘water cattle.’ ‘Now I’m at a 50,000-watt station,’ Pearlman says. ‘And I don’t worry about stepping in it anymore. But I still worry about putting up with it.’”
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The two largest employers in Illinois are the state and federal governments, according to data gathered in the Illinois Economic Report (July 1989), with about 81,000 employees each. Next are Sears (60,000), Osco and Jewel (31,000), and Caterpillar (24,000).
Why I love rotisserie baseball (the statistical fantasy version of the game), according to Neil Tesser, quoted in Inside Chicago (August 1989): “I was looking for something to cost me $500 to $700 a year, eat up an inordinate amount of my time and make me miserable whenever my players have a bad day.”
