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Summary

Left- and Right-Handedness
Airdate: Tuesday - August 24, 1965

WOR Show
Original Airing

audio

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends
They would stop their rediculous absurdity. . . (Main theme missing)
Show Description
WOR recognizes Americans and the Arts and a major art form - Whining Whining is different from complaining, slang words. H.L. Menkin and George Ade wrote about slang. Slang words describe situations and feelings for which there is no classical word. "A person who does not understand the slang of his time is a person who has lost contact with is time." Words drop out of our vocabulary as well as new ones being introduced. Left handers are nutty - gives examples in baseball, musicians, and opera. He read a piece in the NY Post while riding in the back of a cab, about a study which determined that left handers are neurotic. He read it to the driver who was not impressed - being a left hander himself. When Shep was was a left hander and when he was in the first grade his teacher, Miss Meno, forced him to write right handed. By the end of the first week, he was getting nose bleeds from having to learn to be right handed, and by the time he was in second grade he was a right hander. He continued to be an ambidextrous batter through life.
Comments
• Makes references to the time he did commentary for a major U.S. opera company on the radio. After closing theme - Palisades Park commercial featuring Frankie Michaels singing the Little Miss America theme.
WOR ID
Time Station ID (All times approximate)
• 13:50 my mind is full of junk - which reminds me - this is WOR in New York
Commercials (All times approximate)
Time Sponsor Notes
• 13:54 Ballantine Beer Mel Brooks, Dick Cavett
Music (All times approximate)
Time Music Title Notes
• 00:54 First Film Music
• 27:25 Banjoreno
Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth
Time Engineer, Staff or Guest
• 03:09 Bob Considine
• 02:56 Don McClain
Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show
Instruments Played
None
Rating / Review
None Yet
Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used
Time Category Date Title Comments
• [ 28:40 ] General Topics School
• [ 28:40 ] General Topics Kid Stories
• [ 29:04 ] People Arauz, Pearl Was left-handed
• [ 33:09 ] Schools Mc Kinley Elementary School
• [ 34:57 ] People Meno, Miss
• [ 39;00 ] General Topics Baseball
Airdate History ' - Original' date is earliest known broadcast)
Date Title  
August 24, 1965
Recno: 416
Left- and Right-Handedness Original Airing
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August 24, 2004

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Found in the following set(s)
Set Name Show # Media
1965 Set 5
151a
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