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Sex Education; Top Secret Radar; $20 in Library Book
Airdate: Saturday - April 30, 1966

Limelight Show
Original Airing

audio

(NOTE ABOUT TIME REFERENCES: Since there are many different copies of shows out there from different sources, all time references are from the beginning of one single recorded copy, since various copies, depending on when the recordee started recording, had news at the beginning or shortened themes. The times would vary from copy to copy.)

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

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Show Description

[ Courtesy: Max Schmid - - ]   
  
Concert series, Agnes Moorehead for Navy Waves
ID @45 - it's 10:30
Shep starts - Good & Evil fighting it out again!
May First - Spring!
Starling - sniping butts!
Bluebird of Happiness - Mother's favorite record
Washington Zoo has talking Myna bird - that swears!

Miss Crystal Reader-biology teacher when he wa HS Freshman

Alex Josway - Pickled Earthworm, Pearl

Date with Dorothy Anderson at Brookfield Zoo - Rhino unloads, camel spits
back in 5 mins ID 29:15 - Palisades-Demins, Shadows of Knight
ID 30:17 Time Signal 30:31

Ed Pettit with 11 pm news - Sen Pat McNamara dead, cab strike pending, newspaper deadlock, racial violence coming, Viet Nam, drug testing, MLK, sports - cinema nine plug Flying Leathernecks, weather-rain upper 40s ID 35:40

LL resumes: booing, apology to listeners for behavior of audience at Limelight.

Army Story: Signal Corps-Top Secret Radar
SCR268 - for tracking airplanes
Shipped to tropical swamp-time to spot submarines!
Mosquitoes coming in V formation. So big the radar would pick them up!

Short-stopping milk & SOS.

On scope with Gasser & Edwards - rumor of sterilization from standing too close to equipment.

Librarian Miss Easter - a human cake of yeast

Summer means reading on the porch. He finds a $20 bill in library book! Makes big plans to spend it-a new bicycle

Speaking of middle aged fat bottomed couples... crowd ID 1:07:20
Cmml: Imprevu perfume - 1:08:25

back to show: parents fighting, he describes kitchen layout. feeding Randy, everybody WHINE!!

Father comes home, starts stripping. Sits down to supper with glass of beer. Reads newspaper. Phillies losing streak.

Ironing board broken-Mom needs new one. Scrimping

Shep works on his "cute look"

Aunt Min gives him bunny slippers.

Cuts off 1:29:20
PaLISADES, ID & Time Signal 1:30:31

start of Sandy Lesberg NIGHTTIME      
  

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
• 1:07:20	Speaking of middle aged fat bottomed couples...

Commercials (All times approximate)

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Music (All times approximate)

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Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

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Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

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Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used

Time	Category	Date	Title	Comments
•	Army		Army
•	People		Reeder, Miss
•	People		Josway, Alex
•	People		Anderson, Dorothy
•	People		Gasser, Herbert
•	People		Edwards, Roswell T
•	People		Shepherd, Randy
•	People		Min, Aunt
•	Plots / Story Lines		Bunny Slippers / Pajamas
•	Army		Radar	SCR-268

Airdate History ' - Original' date is earliest known broadcast)

This Show

		Date	Title
		April 30, 1966	Sex Education; Top Secret Radar; $20 in Library Book	Original Airing

More Ways To Hear or Buy It

Show	Replay Date
Dustbin of History	May 01, 2024

The Best Source for Quality Jean Shepherd Audio

Found in the following set(s)

Set Name	Show #	Media
Limelight 4	LL-38	Cassette

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"Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory?
Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty." - Jean Shepherd - 1975