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BROADCAST ON WNYC TODAY IN…
1941: Sigmund Spaeth hosts an American Music Festival program on the music of George Gershwin.
1958: Kay Thompson, Ruth Slenczynska and Dean Acheson address The New York Herald Tribune Book and Author Luncheon. Thompson, author of Eloise, discusses how the character Eloise came about. Pianist Slenczynska recalls her 'savage' father and former Secretary of State Acheson on how young people are not prepared for the real world of 1958.
1965: Poet and playwrite LeRoi Jones, (Amiri Baraka) addresses the Overseas Press Club on the revolutionary theater.
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November 1981
A bus shelter-sized version of this Morning Edition ad is now hanging in our newsroom. This November 1981 edition of the WNYC program guide marked Morning Edition's second anniversary. (WNYC Archive Collections)
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June 21, 1938
"The city station's experimental radio theatre produced Gossip, an anti-lynching play which author Arthur Laurence prefaced and ended with a speech of the type Southern Congressmen made a few months ago against the anti-lynching bill."
Source: Carlton, Leonard, "Radio Dramatizes Old Conflict of State vs. Nation," New York Evening Post, June 22, 1938.
Editor's note: An anti-lynching radio drama on WNYC in 1938 is pretty unusual. But I found the curious element to be the author, reportedly a 21-year-old 1937 graduate of Cornell. We called the alumni office at the school. There is no Arthur Laurence or Lawrence listed as a 1937 grad. However, Arthur Laurents who was later to become a well known play and screenwriter was a '37 Cornell graduate and that age.
Laurents was also interested in writing radio drama and is noted for taking a course with William N. Robeson of CBS given at NYU after graduating Cornell. Hmmmm. Nothing in his memoirs about WNYC. Could Laurence be Laurents' pen name?
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