Larry Glick

[Alan Tolz]

All of that is true, Donna.  He worked on a kibbutz in Israel during those 
years.  Steve Elman and I interviewed him for our book on Jerry Williams. 
If you give me a snail mail address, I'll be happy to send along CD's of the 
90 minute conversation for your archives.

Alan
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna Halper" <dlh@donnahalper.com>
To: "Don A" <donald_astelle@yahoo.com>; <ssmyth@psualum.com>
Cc: "BRI+" <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: Larry Glick


> At 03:04 PM 3/28/2009, Don A wrote:
>
>>Something that was mentioned on Steve Leveille's program the other night. 
>>Larry didn't start at WBZ until he was 41 years old (in 1964?)
>>
>>It appears his sucess in radio was later in life.
>
> Well, some articles I've found in my files say he was doing other 
> things... we know he was born in Roxbury in 1922 (btw, the only Glick I 
> find on Ancestry.com who was born in 1922 and living in Roxbury was Irving 
> Glick... do we know if Larry/Lawrence was in fact his real first name???) 
> and we know he was in the Army during WW 2.  I've found clippings that say 
> he was on the Armed Forces Radio Network in Munich Germany.  The articles 
> I found say he first did radio at WLNH in Laconia , and that in 1948 he 
> left the US to work in Israel during the first Arab-Israeli War, and he 
> was there throughout 1949 and into 1950. If those facts are true, it does 
> seem his entry into major market radio was delayed somewhat.
>