Marvin Zindler

“Have a good golf, good tennis, or whatever makes you happy” – that was Marvin Zindler’s trademark closing comment on Houston’s ABC news on Channel 13. Since the day I landed in this country I watched Marvin Zindler for almost three and a half decades and saw him grow from a relatively young TV news personality to the lone, white-headed crusader for the “little” guys. Many adored him, crooks feared him, and many perhaps laughed at his news presentation. He perhaps saved many restaurant goers from food poisoning by his restaurant report about roaches and the “slime in the ice machine”. The man who single handedly destroyed the corrupt chicken ranch in south Texas - later made famous by the movie version, the Best Little Whore House in Texas - died of Pancreatic cancer just yesterday. He was close to 86. Till the very end he continued to report from his hospital bed and ended his last report the same way wishing happiness to the listener – “have a good golf, good tennis, or whatever makes you happy”. Marvin is gone and I will certainly miss him in the evening local news.