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Spitting, Stamps, Books, and Pulp Magazines about Railroads
Airdate: Wednesday - April 4, 1973

WOR Show
Original Airing

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First Spoken Line After Theme Ends
I'm here! Ha ha. Now hold on a minute there if you will please. . .
Show Description
[ Courtesy: Lowell Thelin - ] Test of echo chamber (full and partial) - "Assume that I'm in a vast primal wilderness" Distinction between conventional and special talents (including spitting accuracy) Proposal for Ishmael, Holden Caufield and Ludlow Kissel to be depicted on American postage stamps. Proposal for federal grants and subsidies to publishers for books not published - Senator Bullard speaking in Congress with echo effects. Readings from September 1937 Railroad Magazine with background sounds of a West Virginia freight train - advertisements, a poem, and jokes. Imitations of a tobacco auctioneer and "Call for Phillip Morris" Trivia quiz on advertisements - Marlboro man ("What was his tattoo?")
WOR ID
Time Station ID (All times approximate)
• 18:14 This is WOR New York
Commercials (All times approximate)
Time Sponsor Notes
• 18:22 Mazda
• 19:12 Prozy's Army/Navy Store
• 19:58 Alexis Lichine Beau-Jolais Wine
• 20:18 House of Chan
• 20:47 Ballantine Beer
Music (All times approximate)
Not Determined yet
Needs to be ID'd
Record of train in W Virginia
Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth
Time Engineer, Staff or Guest
• 00:21 George
Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show
Instruments Played
Echo Chamber
Rating / Review
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Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used
Time Category Date Title Comments
People Kissel, Ludlow
People Bullard, Senator
Airdate History ' - Original' date is earliest known broadcast)
Date Title  
April 4, 1973
Recno: 1533
Spitting, Stamps, Books, and Pulp Magazines about Railroads Original Airing
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