[News Script: Fat Man] Page: 1 of 4
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dw FAT MAN TOTAL FILM TIME: 1:37
"A" AND "B" TOLLS .- NOT SYNC
CHIP LIVE You've seen the commercials that say being a little
overweight is like carrying around a ball and chain?
"A" VIDEO AND NATSOF - 7UNS 42 SiCS
V/0 Well, this is not one of those commercials. This
is 70-year-old Jack Garrard of Waco, who is, indeed,
somewhat overweight. Garrard is the hapless victim
of his own practical joke. When his doctor told him
to lose 35 pounds -- the retired refrigeration
engineer spent three weeks fashioning leg irons from
an old bowling ball, a ten-foot length of chain, a
clamp and a small lock. He says now that he only
intended to wear the irons a couple of days...but he
told his buddies at the drug store that he would wer
them i'rtil ho had lost the required weight. Someone
called tne Waco newspaper...Assoca tated Press picked
up the story...Garrard is stuck with the bowling ball.
"B" SOF AND VIDEO - RUNS 58 SECS KEY: GARRARD
(DON'T TAKE "B" VIDEO UNTIL "A" VIDEO PAN BEACHES ROWLING BALIL)
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Fat Man], script, September 7, 1973, 10:00 p.m.; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1909010/m1/1/: accessed June 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.