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BROADCAST ON WNYC TODAY IN…
1924: Children's show host 'Uncle Robert' on "The Hazards of J-Walking." Note: Variety later described Uncle Robert as "a philanthropist and friend of the children whose work on behalf of charitable societies made him a national figure."
1930: Victor Harrison Berlitz teaches his regularly scheduled French lessons.
1949: Mayor William O'Dwyer welcomes British Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery to City Hall. WNYC's Tommy Cowan provides coverage.
1951: Mayor Vincent Impellitteri asks listeners to remain in shelters until the all clear sounds during this official New York City air raid test drill.
1967: Carol Laise Bunker, American ambassador to Nepal and the first woman Assistant Secretary of State, speaks at the Overseas Press Club.
1987: Steve Post and Sara Fishko team up for a one-of-a-kind broadcast. It's called "Cheap Date," a ninety minute ride that takes them through the streets of New York, engaging in their own unique banter, sharing some music, and introducing special acts performed by WNYC listeners.
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A,G, Lorimer Mural in the Green Room
This is one of two paintings of the WNYC Greenpoint, Brooklyn transmitter site done in 1937 by architect Allan Gordon Lorimer. For more on the artist and his works see: LORIMER.
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LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS
"Modernist Poet Zukofsky at WNYC"
April 8, 1935: Louis Zukofsky writes in a letter to Ezra Pound that he is working as a "feature and continuity writer and special researchist for WNYC…" Zukofsky was one of the most important second-generation American modernist poets and one of the primary forerunners of contemporary avant-garde writing. From 1938 -1940, Zukofsky was a senior researcher and writer for the WPA sponsored Index of Design. The index was a comprehensive pictorial and descriptive catalog of American craft and decorative objects and remains an invaluable source for historians of American art, society and culture. In late 1939 and into 1940, Zukofsky researched and was interviewed for a series of at least eleven WPA WNYC broadcasts called The Human Side of Art. The series was based on elements from the Index of Design. Zukofsky's notes and WNYC scripts can be found in A Useful Art: Essays and Radio Scripts on American Design, published by Wesleyan University, 2003.
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