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BROADCAST ON WNYC TODAY IN…
1946: Betty Stamm reviews the play The Duchess of Malfi and interviews its star Donald Eccles.
2013: Sara Fishko reports that on this very day in November of 1943, Leonard Bernstein made a historic debut that played out like a hokey melodrama.
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LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS
A Station ID That Echoes Through Time
"...My mother always woke me at 6:15, simply opening the door that connected the room where I slept to the living room so I could hear the noise from the radio that at that hour was always tuned to WNYC (the city-owned radio station) and its early-morning diet of the classics and the news. The open door meant I had fifteen minutes in the one-bathroom ballet of our family life to get cleaned up and mostly dressed for school before it was my mother's turn. When I emerged, there was always a small glass of orange juice waiting on the table, squeezed from the orange she picked up from a street vendor on her walk home from the Lexington Avenue subway after work. Much less pleasant, there was also always a teaspoon next to it, along with a bottle of foul-tasting cod-liver oil--one of the few consequences of my mother's Norwegian heritage that I loathed. In lieu of matins in our odd routine, we always recited in unison the hyperbolic station break on WNYC at the top of the hour: 'This is New York, the city of opportunity, where more than eight million people live in peace and harmony and enjoy the benefits of democracy'... "
Source: Thomas Oliphant, writing in Praying for Gill Hodges: A Memoir of the 1955 World Series and One Family's Love for the Brooklyn Dodgers, St. Martin's Press, 2005. pg. 13.
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