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Article: [ PRESS BOX A Sampling of Opinions From Around the Nation ]
- Article from:
- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 7, 2001
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The voice now stilled, will forever be remembered as strong and
passionate. The personality launched millions of fans' dreams,
piercing through the cigar smoke hovering over the old Madison Square
Garden court into the radio night.
And on a clear winter day in the Bronx, his great wall of sound
stretched clear from the Stadium up the East Coast. Tittle to
Shofner. Jimmy Brown invading Huff's violent world. Over to you De-
Ro.
To say it was all "Good, like Nedicks," is a large understatement.
Marty Glickman, who died on Wednesday at the age of 83, was the
greatest play-by-play man ever to work a mike. He was an even better
person. Men in his business don't age gracefully. Some become ...
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