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BROADCAST ON WNYC TODAY IN…
1925: Mayor John F. Hylan talks about "The Progress of the City of New York.
1938: The Negro Melody Singers perform in the studio. Note: The group was one of many WPA sponsored music groups filling our airwaves.
1949: Dr. Iago Galston of the New York Academy of Medicine discusses the frontiers of genetics.
1950: Ida Cook and Mary Louise Cook, who rescued Jews from the Nazis in the 1930s, discuss their recently published book, We Followed Our Stars.
1993: Author Tom Wolfe delivers a Celeste Bartos Forum lecture, "Fiction in an Age of Non-Fiction," for the series Voices at the New York Public Library.
2008: WNYC reporter Siddhartha Mitter takes a walk down 125th Street in light of pending zoning changes.
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Greenpoint Transmitter Clock
Many thanks go out this week to retired WNYC engineer Alfred Tropea for donating this original Western Union Naval Observatory clock from the former WNYC Greenpoint, Brooklyn transmitter site. Al's generosity goes beyond this amazing artifact to hundreds of WNYC related photographs from the '60s through the '80s as well. And along with the clock came a 1920s vintage receiver from the Greenpoint site, as well as a station license plate, tube volt meter and Western Electric 639B (birdcage) microphone. Thanks again, Al. These are great additions to the collection!
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LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS
Our Logorrheic Profession
"WNYC's on-air fund raising last week, though typically excruciating, brought the station enough money to keep its drive for independence going. No, WNYC is not advertisement-free; the plugs for its own programs and for its 'supporters' are incessant, and don't be surprised if the commercials grow longer and pushier. But it remains a precious source of non-rock music and of news that doesn't wallow in murders and infidelities. The WNYC-FM schedule has recently been enhanced with four afternoon hours of classical music presided over by Sara Fishko, who has the distinction in a logorrheic profession of not talking unless she has something to say, which is usually something worth hearing about the music she selects..."
Source: Walter Goodman writing in The New York Times, February 6, 1997.
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It's POETRY MONTH and we've pulled together a lot of archive material including Dylan Thomas, Connie Converse, Jack Kerouac, Philip Levine, Natasha Trethewey, Marianne Moore, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Pinsky, Robert Frost, Vladimir Nabokov and more! (Corrected Link!)
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