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Cover Story/Steve Bell

COVER STORY/Steve Bell Continued from Page 4 father was the county agent for a slaughtered in a village. I was in feres with or becomes part of the news gasoline company. His mother "was shock. Being over there profoundly product itself. If it prostitutes the one of the saints in the community, changed my life in a thousand ways I news product, I'm against it. always taking in waifs." can't even mention." "If you take so much time away Bell has been married for 30 years Bell returned stateside to cover the from the news product to do the to his high school sweetheart, Joyce, 1972 presidential campaign, then was shtick that you no longer have a viable an accomplished vocalist currently named Atlanta bureau chief. A year newscast, I'm against it. But if you're working toward a doctorate in music later, he took over the Hong Kong talking about me introducing the from Washington's Catholic Univer- bureau - "That was the job I wanted weatherman and whether I can smile sity. They have two daughters, Alli- when I left Vietnam, but they didn't or blame him for last night's snow- son, 23, and Hilary, 18, both attending give it to me." In April 1974, it was storm, those aren't the same at all in the same college in the Midwest. back to the United States as the my book." Originally he had planned to go into network's third White House correGetting back to the local news wars law, teaching or coaching, but Bell's spondent, covering the final months of - something Bell hasn't done since he career took an unexpected turn when Watergate and the first year of the began his TV career in 1959 at WOI- an injury ended his football-playing Ford administration. GMA began in TV in Ames, Iowa - is not a prospect days at Wheaton College. He trans- 1975. he relishes, but he accepts it as part of ferred to Iowa's Central College and These days, Bell may have a new the package. began working as "a one-man news port of call, but his sports heart will "Now it's not David Hartman who's department" at nearby KGOE-Radio remain anchored in his old home primarily responsible for the ratings, in Oskaloosa in 1955. town. "I will always be a Redskins it's Steve Bell and Diane Allen. I don't Four years later, he joined WOI-TV fan," he says. With such pals as CBS's welcome that, but I'm ready to live in Ames, Iowa, moving on to WGN Lesley Stahl, syndicated columnist with it," he said. "If it changes my Radio and TV in Chicago in 1961. Carl Rowan and ABC Nightline host journalistic values and decision-mak- Next up (1962-65) was WOW- TV in Ted Koppel, Bell is a longtime regular ing process, then there's something Omaha, followed by a one-year stint at in the box of owner Jack Kent Cooke wrong with me. WNEW Radio in New York. at Redskin home games. "That doesn't mean I'm not looking Bell went to ABC in 1967 as a New "You can't just walk away from for the best possible series to run York-based radio correspondent. that," he muses. "However, that during sweeps months. ... On the Three years later, he moved to TV doesn't mean I can't become an Eagles other hand, if we don't put something with a grueling 18-month hitch as a fan. One of the things that always on the air in November because it's a Vietnam combat correspondent. The helps me psychologically to feel part downer but it ought to be on because assignment changed his life. of a new community is to immediately of its effect on the community, some- "I just happened to be there at a develop a love for the home team." thing's wrong." time when there were an awful lot of And when the Eagles play the Community has always been a big bodies," Bell remembers. "I had been 'Skins? deal to Bell. The oldest of three chil- in the country for less than three "I've got a whole year to deal with dren in a close-knit family, he enjoyed months when we came upon 97 men, that one," says Bell, ever the diplo"an idyllic Midwest background." His women and children who had been mat, with a quick laugh.
Article from 08 Feb 1987The Philadelphia Inquirer(Philadelphia, PA)
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