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BROADCAST ON WNYC TODAY IN…
1945: Edward Hastings 'Senator Ford' reads the daily newspaper comic strips by invitation of Mayor La Guardia during the newspaper deliverymen's strike on The Comic Parade.
1959: Harold Braverman, Director of National Discrimination Department of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Brith, on this edition of Campus Press Conference. Braverman explains the three phrases a job posting will have if an employer wants to select based on race: "American citizen" for no Puerto Ricans; "must play saxophone" for no Jews, and "red book" to mean no African Americans.
1962: President John F. Kennedy holds press conference on tax cuts for 1963 and relations with the Soviet Union.
1979: Phillip Lopate discusses his novel Confessions of Summer on The Reader's Almanac with Walter James Miller.
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WNYC's Reporter on the Afterlife
This is a is a limited edition (1,500 copies) of Kurt Vonnegut's 1998 series of reports on the afterlife broadcast by WNYC. For the whole story and to listen in see: VONNEGUT.
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LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS
Radio's First* Record Review Program on WNYC
Peter Hugh Reed (1892-1969) pioneered record criticism hosting Around the Disc, a record review program on WNYC. According to The New York Times radio listings, the show aired weekly from Aprll, 1929 to February, 1931. [1] In a 1974 interview, WNYC's first 'Music Supervisor' Herman Neuman recalled Reed requesting the show and his putting him on the air. [2] In May, 1935 the record critic and discographer founded The American Music Lover, a monthly magazine that for many years was the only periodical dedicated to 'serious' commercial recordings. In 1944 Reed changed the name to The American Record Guide and remained its editor and publisher until retiring in 1957.
[*] "Peter Hugh Reed, Record Critic, 77,' The New York Times, September 26, 1969, pg. 47. [Obituary]
[1] Radio Listings, The New York Times, April 1929 - February 1931.
[2] Dembart, Lee, "Voices From the Past Help WNYC Mark 50th Year," The New York Times, July 9. 1974, pg. 78.
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