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Episode Notes Notes go here Barnes, Lucinda (1993). "A Proclamation of Moment: Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rottko and Barnett Newman and the letter to The New York Times". Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin. XLVII (1). Tomkins, Calvin (9 June 1975). "A Keeper of the Treasure". The New Yorker. pp. 52–54. ^ Robson, Deirdre (2000). Francis Frascina (ed.). Pollock and After: The Critical Debate. Routledge. p. 290. ISBN 9780415228671. Retrieved 9 January 2013. Collins, Bradford R. (June 1991). "Life Magazine and the Abstract Expressionists: 1948-51. A Historiographic Study of a Late Bohemian Enterprise". The Art Bulletin. LXXIII (2). College Art Association: 283–308. doi:10.2307/3045794. JSTOR 3045794. Hale, Robert Beverly (February 1951). "A Report on American Painting Today: 1950". The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. New series. 9 (6). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 162–172. doi:10.2307/3257446. JSTOR 3257446. ^Hale, Robert Beverly (1957). "The American Moderns" (PDF). The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. 16 (1). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 18–28. doi:10.2307/3257721. JSTOR 3257721. Retrieved 26 November 2012. ^ "Whitney Drops Proposal for Combining its Collections with the Metropolitan's" (PDF). The New York Times. 1 October 1948. Retrieved 26 November 2012. Staff writer (7 December 1948). "Art Museum adds a Modern Section" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved 26 November 2012. Knox, Sanka (1 January 1950). "Competition for American Artists Planned by Metropolitan Museum" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved 26 November 2012. ^ Louchheim, Aline (25 March 1951). "Sam A. Lewinsohn and His Legacy to Art". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 December 2012. ^ "Subject of the Artist | art school". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 7 June 2020. ^ Chilvers, Ian; Glaves-Smith, John (2009). Subjects of the Artist School. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-923966-5. Retrieved 7 June 2020. {{[cite book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_book)}}: |website= ignored (help) ^ "Subjects of the Artist school catalog". Archives of American Art. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 7 June 2020. ^ Rosenberg, Bonnie. "An Inside Look at the Abstract Expressionists". NewYorkArtWorld. Retrieved 7 June 2020. Steven, Mark; Swan, Annalyn (2005). de Kooning: American Master. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 9781400041756. ^ Alloway, Lawrence; MacNaughton, Mary (1995). Adolph Gottlieb: A Retrospective. Hudson Hills. ISBN 9781555951252. Retrieved 27 November 2012. Naifeh, Steven; White Smith, Gregory (1989). Jackson Pollock: An American Saga. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. / Publishers. ISBN 0-517-56084-4. "18 Painters Boycott Metropolitan; Charge 'Hostility to Advanced Art'" (PDF). The New York Times. 22 May 1950. Retrieved 25 November 2012. ^ Newman, Barnett (1992). John Philip O'Neill (ed.). Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520078178. Retrieved 1 December 2012. ^ "The Irascible Eighteen". The New York Herald Tribune. 23 May 1950. ^ Rubenfeld, Florence (1997). Clement Greenberg: a life. New York: Scribner. pp. 144. ISBN 9780684191102. Boxer, Sarah (23 December 2010). "The Last Irascible". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 28 November 2012. ^ Kees, Weldon (June 2003). Robert E. Knoll (ed.). Weldon Kees and the Mid-Century Generation: Letters, 1935-1955. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 9780803278080. Retrieved 28 November 2012. ^ "The Revolt of the Pelicans". Time. 5 June 1950. Archived from the original on January 31, 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2012. ^ Taylor, Francis Henry (December 1948). "The Almanac". The Atlantic Monthly. Retrieved 27 November 2012. ^ "75 Painters Deny Museum is Hostile" (PDF). The New York Times. 4 July 1950. Retrieved 27 November 2012. "IRASCIBLE GROUP OF ADVANCED ARTISTS LED FIGHT AGAINST SHOW". Life. 15 January 1951. pp. 34–38. Retrieved 27 November 2012. Breslin, James (2012). Mark Rothko: A Biography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226074061. ^ Boxer, Sarah. "The Last Irascible | Sarah Boxer". ISSN 0028-7504. Retrieved 2023-09-12. ^ Levin, Gail (2011). Lee Krasner: A Biography. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 9780061845253. ^ "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?". Life. Vol. 27, no. 6. Time Inc. 8 August 1949. pp. 42–45. ISSN 0024-3019. Retrieved 29 November 2012. ^ Bourdon, D. (November 1985). "Sitting Pretty". Vogue (CLXXV): 116. Sandler, Irving (2003). "2". In Daniel A. Siedell (ed.). Weldon Kees and the Arts at Midcentury. University of Nebraska Press. pp. 39–50. ISBN 9780803242951. Retrieved 29 November 2012. ^ Friedman, Bernard Harper (September 1978). "The Irascibles: A Split Second in Art History". Arts Magazine. Vol. 53, no. 1. pp. 96–102. ^ Sandler, Irving (1970). The Triumph of American Painting: a History of Abstract Expressionism. New York: Praeger Publishers. OL 17754003M. ^ Gibson, Ann Eden (1997). Abstract Expressionism: Other Politics. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. p. 29. ISBN 0300063393. OL 1006293M. This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

"He said you're a real Film Nerd." "What's a Film Nerd?" On this episode, BK & Jack catch the French New Wave via its most iconic film! Join them on a journey through the history of French Cinema from the Lumieres to Cahiers, the formation of the New Wave movement on both banks of the Senne, how an unexpected classic flew by the seat of its pants throughout the production, and so much more!The Film Nerds want all or nothing, and they've got it all in this episode!

Antes de que el hombre llegara a la Luna, la idea de que hubiera ruinas en ella, de que este lugar ya hubiera sido visitado con anterioridad a la llegada del hombre, cobró fuerza. Por ejemplo, en 1952, la prensa se hizo eco de unas declaraciones de Harvey Harlow Nininger sobre un posible “túnel” en la superficie de la Luna. Nininger, padre de la meteórica moderna, fue uno de los grandes divulgadores sobre el espacio en los años 20 y 30 del siglo pasado en Estados Unidos. En este caso, el túnel se habría formado por la caída de un meteorito. Pero Nininger no es el único. En julio de 1953, el astrónomo aficionado John J. O’neill, que, por aquel entonces, trabajaba como periodista científico para el New York Herald Tribune, afirmó haber visto con su telescopio una especie de puente o arco de tierra que unía dos cráteres en la cara oeste del Mare Crisium. Ambos ejemplos, y otros, como los de los famosos obeliscos, serán protagonistas de nuestra Hemeroteca con Iker Jiménez. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Prophetic News Radio-Hillsong reborn? Brian Houston makes a comeback.Kenneth Copeland sinks to a new low, accepts a seed Bentley car from a man suffering from brain cancer, his friend Mylon leFevre. JFK and the press, Karl Marx once a foreign correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune.

Legendary cartoonist & artist Stan Mack pioneered documentary comics and bought New York's multitudes to life with Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies (RLF) in the Village Voice, and now he joins the show to celebrate the publication of STAN MACK'S REAL LIFE FUNNIES: The Collected Conceits, Delusions, and Hijinks of New Yorkers from 1974 to 1995 (Fantagraphics)! We talk about winnowing down 1,000+ RLF strips to 275 for this book, the comic's secret origin and how we share some Milton Glaser conceptual DNA, what he learned about cartooning and storytelling, the creeping realization that people were actually reading RLF, and how he and the comic grew over 20+ years. We get into whether Real Life Funnies and its snippets of street dialogue could work today when everybody just stares at their phones, how his pre-Voice stint as art director at the New York Herald Tribune made an editor out of him, the moment he realized he was a New Yorker, how he became an activist and used RLF to highlight the squatters' rights movement, the AIDS crisis, and more in NYC, how important the Village Voice was to the city and to America in the '70s and '80s and why we need to bring it out of the pre-digital memory hole (a la DW Young & his new documentary, UNCROPPED), Stan's failure as a backup dancer for Lionel Richie, and a lot more. Follow Stan on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal and via our e-newsletter

The man you just heard was CBS news reporter Robert Trout. Born in Wake County, North Carolina on October 15th, 1909, he grew up in Washington, D.C., entering broadcasting in 1931 as an announcer at WJSV, an independent station in Alexandria, Virginia. In the summer of 1932 WJSV was acquired by CBS, bringing Trout into the young network. He soon became an invaluable member of William S. Paley's team, and was the first person to publicly refer to FDR's radio programs as Fireside Chats. On Sunday night, March 13th, 1938, after Adolf Hitler's Germany had annexed Austria in the Anschluss, Trout hosted a shortwave "roundup" of reaction from multiple cities in Europe—the first such multi-point live broadcast on network radio. Years later, journalist Ned Calmer remembered that moment. Trout also played a key role in Edward R. Murrow's development as a broadcaster. By the time war had come to the US, Trout was in New York and Murrow had put together the staff of international war correspondents known as the Murrow Boys. At 4:15 AM eastern war time on the morning of Tuesday June 6th, 1944, Bob Trout was in the CBS newsroom at 485 Madison Avenue emceeing an overnight broadcast that brought the first eye witness account of the invasion from reporter Wright Bryan. Bryan stood an imposing six-foot-five and covered the story from a transport plane dropping airborne troops. Later in 1944 Bryan was wounded and captured by the Germans. He spent six months in hospitals and in a POW camp in Poland before being freed by Russian troops in January 1945. This broadcast took listeners up to 5 AM. eastern war time. Along with Wright Bryan, it featured analysis from George Fielding Elliot, commentary by Quentin Reynolds, and reports from John W. Vandercook and James Willard. At 5AM over CBS Major George Fielding Elliot gave an analysis of the known information. Elliot was a second lieutenant in the Australian army during World War I. He became a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and later a major in the Military Intelligence Reserve of the US Army. He wrote fifteen books on military and political matters and was a longtime staff writer for the New York Herald Tribune. After Elliot spoke, Richard C. Hottelet reported from London with the first eye witness account of the seaborne side of the invasion. Edward R. Murrow hired Hottelet that January. On this day he was riding in a bomber that attacked Utah Beach six minutes before H-Hour and watched the first minutes of the attack. He would later cover the Battle of the Bulge. At 7AM French time, the Allies began deploying amphibious tanks on the beaches of Normandy to support the ground troops and sweep for defensive mines. American troops faced heavy machine-gun fire on Omaha Beach, the most heavily fortified landing point of the invasion. Roughly twenty-five-hundred U.S. soldiers were killed on the beach in the bloodiest fight of the day. This fighting took the timeline to Eisenhower's official announcement at 3:32 Eastern War time.

In episode 77, I interviewed William Lanouette about Leo Szilard's work on the atom bomb, with a discussion of the roles that Szilard played until the end of World War II. Today, in part two of my interview with Bill, we focus on Szilard's achievements after the war. Bill is a writer and public policy analyst who has specialized in the history of nuclear energy and nuclear weapons. He received an A.B. in English with a minor in Philosophy at Fordham College in 1963, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Political Science at the London School of Economics and the University of London in 1966 and 1973, respectively. Bill then worked as a journalist for Newsweek, The National Observer, and National Journal, and he was the Washington Correspondent for The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. He has also written for The Atlantic, The Economist, Scientific American, The New York Herald Tribune, The Washington Post, and many other outlets. Bill also worked as a Senior Analyst for Energy and Science Issues at the US Government Accountability Office. Bill's first book was Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the Bomb, published by Scribner's in 1992, with later editions published by the University of Chicago Press and Skyhorse Publications. Bill also published, in 2021, The Triumph of the Amateurs: The Rise, Ruin, and Banishment of Professional Rowing in The Gilded Age.

Information Please - Sigmund Spaeth & Basil Rathbone 1938 Announcer-Milton Cross, w-Franklin P. Adams Clifton Fadiman as moderator & Other regulars included Science writer Bernard Jaffe, professor of philosophy Dr Harry Overstreet, Marcus Duffield of the New York Herald-Tribune and later John Kieran a sport's columnist for the New York Times and Oscar Levant a pianist and composer.

Perhaps the most overlooked scientist who played critical roles in the development of the atomic bomb was Leo Szilard. With us to explore Szilard's numerous contributions to science and society is William Lanouette. Bill is a writer and public policy analyst who has specialized in the history of nuclear energy and nuclear weapons. He received an A.B. in English with a minor in Philosophy at Fordham College in 1963, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Political Science at the London School of Economics and the University of London in 1966 and 1973, respectively. Bill then worked as a journalist for Newsweek, The National Observer, and National Journal, and he was the Washington Correspondent for The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. He has also written for The Atlantic, The Economist, Scientific American, The New York Herald Tribune, The Washington Post, and many other outlets. Bill also worked as a Senior Analyst for Energy and Science Issues at the US Government Accountability Office. Bill's first book was Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the Bomb, published by Scribner's in 1992, with later editions published by the University of Chicago Press and Skyhorse Publications. Bill also published, in 2021, The Triumph of the Amateurs: The Rise, Ruin, and Banishment of Professional Rowing in The Gilded Age. In this episode, we discuss all things Szilard: the man, the war, the bomb, the innovations, the collaborations, the accusations of espionage, the conflicts, and even the Martians.

In the Spring of 1944, Fred Allen was finishing up his fourth season as host of The Texaco Star Theater on CBS. He'd been on the air for over a decade, but it was while he was hosting Texaco on December 6th, 1942 that Fred debuted Allen's Alley. Allen used to read the newspaper column of O.O. McIntyre, called “Thoughts While Strolling.” McIntyre wrote about sights and sounds he'd met walking through the shabby streets of New York's Chinatown and The Bowery. Allen felt that this kind of routine could come off very well on radio. A loud-mouth politician had possibilities. Actor Jack Smart voiced Senator Bloat. John Doe was another early character. Portrayed by John Brown, Doe was an average man squeezed by life from all angles. Alan Reed voiced Falstaff Openshaw, the poet. There was a Greek restaurant owner, an old maid, and a Russian. The segment was always launched with Portland Hoffa asking what question Alen had for the Alley occupants that week. Then they'd knock on various doors. Eventually many of these characters gave way to the most popular incarnation of the Alley with Minerva Pious' jewish Mrs. Nussbaum, Peter Donald's irish Ajax Cassidy, Kenny Delmare's the Southern Senator Claghorn, and Parker Fennelly's rural New England Titus Moody. The entire alley was allotted five minutes with laughter. Each character had seventy-five seconds for their lines. This was an issue because the program often ran overtime. It eventually caused the whole show to get cut off the air by network executives. The New York Herald-Tribune critic John Crosby later wrote that part of what made Fred's battles with censorship so difficult was that "the man assigned to review his scripts frankly admitted he didn't understand Allen's peculiar brand of humor at all." Regardless, the agency and network people couldn't argue with Allen's ratings. He was consistently a top-twenty show, and in April of 1944 he was being heard by more than thirteen million people. On Easter Sunday at 9:30PM New York time, his special guest was actor Reginald Gardiner. Together they presented a sketch spoofing Sherlock Holmes called Fetlock Bones. Unfortunately, the fight was getting to Fred Allen. After this season, Allen quit The Texaco Star Theater as high blood pressure forced him off the air.

In the 127th installment of the Black Lincoln Collective podcast, the hosts, Parker, Fred, and Alan, take you on a journey that's as erratic as it is hilarious. Right from the start, you're strapped in for an evening that promises to be a bumpy yet thoroughly enjoyable ride. Imagine a podcast that's become a viral sensation, not just for its content but for its presence in the most unexpected of places – rest area bathrooms. It's the kind of show that you tune into, not just for the laughs but for the sense of camaraderie and the feeling of being part of an exclusive club, one that's in on the joke and loving every minute of it. This episode, in particular, is a treasure trove of anecdotes, witty banter, and the kind of off-the-cuff remarks that you'd share with your closest friends. The hosts' chemistry is palpable, making you feel like you're right there with them, swapping stories and sharing a laugh. But it's not all just talk. The episode heats up with a Sriracha challenge that's as fiery as it sounds. Will the hosts handle the heat or will they be reaching for the nearest glass of milk? You'll have to listen to find out. And if you've ever had any experience with youth sports, whether as a coach, a parent, or a spectator, you'll find yourself nodding along and chuckling at the absurdities and truths shared about coaching kids in basketball. The Black Lincoln Collective podcast is more than just a show; it's an experience. It's where you go when you need a break from the mundane, a place to unwind and let loose with a few friends who just happen to have a microphone between them. Don't miss out on what might just be the best episode ever – and that's saying something for a show that's already 127 episodes deep. Tune in, have a laugh, and who knows, you might just find yourself looking forward to the next rest stop on your journey – if only to check if the rumors are true. Listen now and join the collective – where every episode is a giant leap for podcast-kind.(00:00) Welcome to the Black Lincoln Collective podcast. It's alive. All right, fasten your seatbelt(01:00) This is the 127th Black Lincoln Collective podcast(04:50) Fred Lincoln plays basketball with his sons and loses by 16 points(08:52) Two white people fighting over a 12-year-old basketball game(12:22) Dad says man threatened to fight him, but we're better than him(16:39) Fred BlC. says he's over controversy surrounding his basketball team(20:57) Fred says youth basketball has not been fun for him as a coach(25:09) Fred: I'm against abbreviations for the word crossing(28:21) I wanted to snowboard so bad, and then I went and(31:57) The Black Lincoln collective podcast will return after a word from our sponsors(34:29) Fred Blackland takes on the hot sauce taste test of the century(38:16) Next on the taste test of pain is Hawaiian lava hot sauce(40:52) Red mustard, courtesy of asian bottle man. This is absolutely delicious. Yes, it is delicious. Now, this is when we get into(43:43) Now we'll go to our traditional, or our old new style rooster(44:30) This is a black Lincoln collective exclusive food review, sort of(47:29) Tell me about what goes on a Philly cheesesteak(48:53) For that, I have some words, some of the most unusually long english words(51:35) The definition of consingenuous is of the same blood or origin(53:55) This sentence was published in the New York Herald Tribune in 1959(54:25) The manner by which LSD 25 produces its mental changes is obscure(56:24) An infant in Louisiana underwent a successful xenotransplantation Friday(01:01:11) Pigs have replaced primates as primary candidates for xenotransplantation to humans(01:01:46) This is legitimately on the list. Jackasseseries. And this should be an easy one. Any guesses(01:03:26) Next week on the BLC podcast will be celebrating Black History Month(01:06:39) Shirley: I tried to wear my hat backwards today   #blcpodcast #podcastingforthepeople #funny #podcast #greenvillesc #scpodcast #yeahthatgreenville Listen at: https://blc.world/ Tweet the Show: https://twitter.com/blcworld Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blcpodcast/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blcpodcast/ Buy Fred and Allan Beer: https://www.patreon.com/blcworld

The third episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1939 features the year's biggest flop, ice skating showcase The Ice Follies of 1939. Directed by Reinhold Schünzel and starring James Stewart, Joan Crawford, Lew Ayres and Lewis Stone, The Ice Follies of 1939 was created as a showcase for the International Ice Follies touring ice show.The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Frank S. Nugent in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1939/03/17/archives/the-screen-love-affair-a-bittersweet-romance-opens-at-the-music.html), Variety (https://variety.com/1938/film/reviews/ice-follies-of-1939-1200412063/), and R.W.D. in The New York Herald Tribune.Visit https://www.awesomemovieyear.com for more info about the show.Make sure to like Awesome Movie Year on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear and follow us on Twitter @AwesomemoviepodYou can find Jason online at http://goforjason.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Twitter @JHarrisComedyYou can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ and on Twitter @signalbleedYou can find our producer David Rosen's Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod and the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod.You can also follow us all on Letterboxd to keep up with what we've been watching at goforjason, signalbleed and bydavidrosen.Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year, plus fellow podcasts Piecing It Together and All Rice No Beans, and music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosenAll of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.comPlease like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1939 installment, featuring the Cannes Film Festival retrospective winner, Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

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In the decades between the Great Depression and the advent of cable television, when daily newspapers set the conversational agenda in the United States, the best reporter in the business was a rumpled, unassuming figure named Homer Bigart. Despite two Pulitzers and a host of other prizes, he quickly faded from public view after retirement. Few today know the extent to which he was esteemed by his peers.  Get the Damn Story: Homer Bigart and the Great Age of American Newspapers (Georgetown UP, 2023) is the first comprehensive biography to encompass all of Bigart's journalism, including both his war reporting and coverage of domestic events. Writing for the New York Herald Tribune and the New York Times, Bigart brought to life many events that defined the era—the wars in Europe, the Pacific, Korea, and Vietnam; the civil rights movement; the creation of Israel; the end of colonialism in Africa; and the Cuban Revolution. Bigart's career demonstrates the value to a democratic society of a relentless, inquiring mind examining its institutions and the people who run them. James Kates is a professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He has worked as an editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and other publications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In the decades between the Great Depression and the advent of cable television, when daily newspapers set the conversational agenda in the United States, the best reporter in the business was a rumpled, unassuming figure named Homer Bigart. Despite two Pulitzers and a host of other prizes, he quickly faded from public view after retirement. Few today know the extent to which he was esteemed by his peers.  Get the Damn Story: Homer Bigart and the Great Age of American Newspapers (Georgetown UP, 2023) is the first comprehensive biography to encompass all of Bigart's journalism, including both his war reporting and coverage of domestic events. Writing for the New York Herald Tribune and the New York Times, Bigart brought to life many events that defined the era—the wars in Europe, the Pacific, Korea, and Vietnam; the civil rights movement; the creation of Israel; the end of colonialism in Africa; and the Cuban Revolution. Bigart's career demonstrates the value to a democratic society of a relentless, inquiring mind examining its institutions and the people who run them. James Kates is a professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He has worked as an editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and other publications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/communications

In the decades between the Great Depression and the advent of cable television, when daily newspapers set the conversational agenda in the United States, the best reporter in the business was a rumpled, unassuming figure named Homer Bigart. Despite two Pulitzers and a host of other prizes, he quickly faded from public view after retirement. Few today know the extent to which he was esteemed by his peers.  Get the Damn Story: Homer Bigart and the Great Age of American Newspapers (Georgetown UP, 2023) is the first comprehensive biography to encompass all of Bigart's journalism, including both his war reporting and coverage of domestic events. Writing for the New York Herald Tribune and the New York Times, Bigart brought to life many events that defined the era—the wars in Europe, the Pacific, Korea, and Vietnam; the civil rights movement; the creation of Israel; the end of colonialism in Africa; and the Cuban Revolution. Bigart's career demonstrates the value to a democratic society of a relentless, inquiring mind examining its institutions and the people who run them. James Kates is a professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He has worked as an editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and other publications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/journalism

Dorothy Thompson fue una destacada periodista y escritora estadounidense que desafió valientemente al régimen nazi y advirtió sobre el peligro que representaba Adolf Hitler mucho antes de que el mundo se diera cuenta. A través de su columna en el periódico New York Herald Tribune, Thompson denunció el ascenso de Hitler y advirtió sobre las consecuencias desastrosas que tendría su ideología y su ambición de poder. Su valiente voz y sus incisivos análisis fueron vitales para despertar la conciencia mundial sobre la amenaza que representaba el régimen nazi. Dorothy Thompson se convirtió en un faro de verdad en una época oscura y su legado perdura como un ejemplo de periodismo comprometido y valiente. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Dans le contexte de la guerre froide, à partir de 1947, les Américains ont fait feu de tout bois pour faire échec au communisme, considéré à cette époque comme leur ennemi juré. Pour le gouvernement américain, l'un des moyens de contrer l'adversaire était de se rallier l'opinion publique. Dans une telle situation, la propagande est en effet une arme de choix aux mains des autorités. Pour arriver à leurs fins, elles sollicitent l'aide de la CIA. C'est alors que le puissant service de renseignement met au point l'opération "Mockingbird", ce qui peut se traduire par "oiseau moqueur". Lancée en 1948, cette opération est d'abord dirigée par le "Bureau des projets spéciaux", avant d'être pilotée par le "Bureau de la coordination des politiques". Placé sous la direction de Frank Wisner, le chef de la planification de la CIA, le programme avait pour but d'influencer la population par le biais des médias. Pour ce faire, les services de Wisner infiltrent les grands organes de presse et recrutent des journalistes. Ils persuadent d'abord le "Washington Post" de collaborer avec eux puis, par l'intermédiaire de ce journal, prennent de solides positions dans des titres de presse aussi prestigieux que le "New York Herald Tribune", "Life" ou "The New York Times". Les organes nationaux n'étaient d'ailleurs pas les seuls à être contactés par la CIA. Nombre de journaux locaux ont également accepté de collaborer avec le service de renseignement. On estime qu'environ 400 journalistes étaient enrôlés dans cette opération en 1977 et que 3.000 personnes au total ont travaillé pour ce projet. Cette propagande anticommuniste était d'autant plus efficace que l'audience de certains des journalistes recrutés était plus large. Les services de Frank Wisner n'hésitent d'ailleurs pas à fournir aux journalistes des documents, parfois classifiés, pour les aider à rédiger leurs articles. Les détails de l'opération "Mockingbird", dirigée, à partir de 1953, par le directeur de la CIA, Allen Dulles, ont été dévoilés par la Commission Church, réunie à l'initiative du Sénat américain en 1975, puis publiés l'année suivante. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dans le contexte de la guerre froide, à partir de 1947, les Américains ont fait feu de tout bois pour faire échec au communisme, considéré à cette époque comme leur ennemi juré.Pour le gouvernement américain, l'un des moyens de contrer l'adversaire était de se rallier l'opinion publique. Dans une telle situation, la propagande est en effet une arme de choix aux mains des autorités.Pour arriver à leurs fins, elles sollicitent l'aide de la CIA. C'est alors que le puissant service de renseignement met au point l'opération "Mockingbird", ce qui peut se traduire par "oiseau moqueur".Lancée en 1948, cette opération est d'abord dirigée par le "Bureau des projets spéciaux", avant d'être pilotée par le "Bureau de la coordination des politiques". Placé sous la direction de Frank Wisner, le chef de la planification de la CIA, le programme avait pour but d'influencer la population par le biais des médias.Pour ce faire, les services de Wisner infiltrent les grands organes de presse et recrutent des journalistes. Ils persuadent d'abord le "Washington Post" de collaborer avec eux puis, par l'intermédiaire de ce journal, prennent de solides positions dans des titres de presse aussi prestigieux que le "New York Herald Tribune", "Life" ou "The New York Times".Les organes nationaux n'étaient d'ailleurs pas les seuls à être contactés par la CIA. Nombre de journaux locaux ont également accepté de collaborer avec le service de renseignement.On estime qu'environ 400 journalistes étaient enrôlés dans cette opération en 1977 et que 3.000 personnes au total ont travaillé pour ce projet. Cette propagande anticommuniste était d'autant plus efficace que l'audience de certains des journalistes recrutés était plus large.Les services de Frank Wisner n'hésitent d'ailleurs pas à fournir aux journalistes des documents, parfois classifiés, pour les aider à rédiger leurs articles.Les détails de l'opération "Mockingbird", dirigée, à partir de 1953, par le directeur de la CIA, Allen Dulles, ont été dévoilés par la Commission Church, réunie à l'initiative du Sénat américain en 1975, puis publiés l'année suivante. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Today we have CBS coverage of the New York Herald Tribune's Forum of November 17, 1942, featuring a talk by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the government's policy on war news. Be sure to visit our website at BrickPickleMedia.com/podcasts, where you can find links to past episodes, as well as the books featured in our podcasts. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/worldwar2radio/support

OF THEE I SING COMPOSER: George Gershwin LYRICIST: Ira Gershwin BOOK: George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind DIRECTOR: George S. Kaufman CHOREOGRAPHER: Chester Hale PRINCIPLE CAST: William Gaxton (Wintergreen), Victor Moore (Throttlebottom), Lois Moran (Mary) OPENING DATE: Dec 26, 1931 CLOSING DATE: Jan 14, 1933 PERFORMANCES: 441 SYNOPSIS: John P Wintergreen is a presidential candidate who needs a wife. When a national contest is held to find a potential bride, Wintergreen is paired with America's sweetheart Diana Deveraux, but he soon realizes that he is in love with Mary Turner, the contest's organizer.   Of Thee I Sing is the result of George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind's desire to write a musical satire with George and Ira Gershwin that could criticize the United States' political party system without being watered down for mainstream audiences. Apart from its satirical comedy, the musical is notable for the way the score and lyrics tie in closely with the rest of the libretto, its long stretches without songs aside from underscoring, and its early use of projection on the American stage. Additionally, this musical marks the first pairing of the theatrical team William Gaxton and Victor Moore. The show was an immediately popular success in its Boston tryout and subsequent New York run, earning praise from critics, audiences, and even the politicians evidently ridiculed by the storyline. Ultimately, Of Thee I Sing was recognized for its innovative achievements by becoming the first musical to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, a controversial decision which helped to elevate the artform of musical comedy and pave the way for more inventive musicals to follow. Laura Frankos outlines the ways Of Thee I Sing was a theatrical endeavor with a lasting impact. Laura Frankos is the author of The Broadway Musical Quiz Book (Applause Books, 2010). She is a regular contributor to CastAlbumReviews.com, and previously authored a blog on unusual musical theatre history, The Great White Wayback Machine. She has also written a mystery novel, St. Oswald's Niche, and short fiction in the science fiction and fantasy genres. Her latest novel, Broadway Revival (2022), has a time traveler curing Gershwin's tumor and altering the course of Golden Age Broadway. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, novelist Harry Turtledove. SOURCES Atkinson, Brooks. “Of Thee I Sing,” New York Times, January 3, 1932 Atkinson, Brooks. “PULITZER LAURELS; In Which the Play Committee Jumps Aboard the Band Wagon and Turns Its Back on the Drama.” The New York Times, 8 May 1932. “Definition of Throttlebottom | Dictionary.Com.” Www.Dictionary.Com, 2021. Fischer, Heinz D. The Pulitzer Prize Archive, Part D: Drama/Comedy Awards 1917-1996. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Saur, 1998. Furia, Philip. Ira Gershwin: The Art of the Lyricist. Oxford University Press, 1997. Gershwin, Ira. Lyrics on Several Occasions. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1959. Jablonski, Edward. Gershwin: A Biography. New York: Doubleday, 1987. Mantle, Burns. “Speaking of Pulitzer Prizes,” New York Daily News, May 8, 1932. Stone, Percy N. “Ira Gershwin's Light Is Shining Without George's Reflected Glory.” New York Herald Tribune, Dec. 1931. Of Thee I Sing, Revival Cast Recording, Foyer (1952) Of Thee I Sing by George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, George S. Kaufman, and Morrie Ryskind, published by Samuel French (1963) Of Thee I Sing starring Cloris Leachman and Carroll O'Connor, directed by Roger Beatty, Dick Hall, and Dave Powers, CBS Television Network (1972) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Radiotopia is a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts that's a part of PRX, a not-for-profit public media company. If you'd like to directly support this show and independent media, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate. This episode was originally released as Episode 184: Betty Robinson in July of 2021. A note on notes: We'd much rather you just went into each episode of The Memory Palace cold. And just let the story take you where it well. So, we don't suggest looking into the show notes first. Music Pollen by H.Takahashi and, later, Photosynthese. The New York Herald Tribune by Martial Solal Trying Something Again, Again by Lullatone Wiffle Ball from Joel P. West's score for Short Term 12 The title theme to Cani Arrabbiati Increase by David Lang and Alarm Will Sound Nijuichi by Sylvain Chaveau Occam II for Violin by Eliane Radigue Drunken Aviator by the (great, truly) Ida. Eyes Closed and Travelling by Peter Broderick Notes If you are looking to read more about Betty, I'd suggest Rosanne Montillo's terrific book, Fire on the Track.

Synopsis The American composer Virgil Thomson was fond of writing what he called “portraits” –musical sketches of people he knew. When asked how he did this, Thomson replied: “I just look at you and I write down what I hear.” One of these works – a portrait in disguise – premiered on today's date in 1954 at the Venice Festival in Italy.  Identified simply as his Concerto for Flute, Strings, Harp, and Percussion, Thomson later confessed it was in fact a musical portrait of Roger Baker, a handsome young painter he had recently befriended. Virgil Thomson was born in Kansas City in 1896, studied music at Harvard, lived in Paris through much of the 1920s and 30s, and in 1940 became the music critic of The New York Herald-Tribune, a post he held until 1954. Thomson once defined the role of music critic as one who “seldom kisses, but always tells.” But in 1954, Thomson decided fourteen years as a music critic was enough, and it was time to concentrate on his own music for a change. Perhaps not by coincidence, one of the friends who encouraged him to do so was Roger Baker, the artist “portrayed” by Thomson in his 1954 concerto. Music Played in Today's Program Virgil Thomson (1896 – 1989) — Flute Concerto (Mary Stolper, flute; Czech National Symphony; Paul Freeman, cond.) Cedille 046

Campaigning for the US Senate, 1950. Pic - Library of Congress In this 8th podcast, we explore the thinking of Richard Nixon.  Put yourself in his position.  You're 35, elected to the House in a Republican wave year from a district that is usually safely Democratic.  Your plum Committee assignment was Education and Labor.  But, on HUAC, this throbbing blob of a Case has come rolling in the door.  You and Bob Stripling saw possibilities that no one else saw and now The Case is all yours.  You have satisfied yourself that Hiss is lying and Chambers is telling the truth.  Now, for you, the issue is how far do you take this.  Do you risk everything (your whole career) for it?  How to prevent The Establishment from rallying around its fair haired boy Alger?  How to convince them that Hiss is lying and they should give you free rein?  How to satisfy yourself that Chambers will not crack under the pressure of public scrutiny and Democrat attacks, that he'll convince typical Americans, that there's nothing fishy in his past, that his love of melodrama will not carry him away into fantastication?  If anything goes wrong, in six months you'll be back in Whittier doing slip and fall cases.  In this podcast, you'll hear about the inner turmoil and external events that made up the mind of the future President.  Further Research: Episode 8:  Speculating about the thinking of Richard Nixon has been an indoor sport for people who knew him and the American intelligentsia for decades.  In his own writings about this moment in the Case, he is unusually candid about how uncertain and anxious he was.  See Six Crises at 19-23; see also Weinstein at 36-37.  Nixon sent his brother Ed and his Mother to chat with the Chamberses.  Ed Nixon & Karen Olson, “The Nixons: A Family Portrait” (2009) at 137-38.  Nixon also consulted a reporter for the leading liberal Republican newspaper, The New York Herald Tribune.  This Reporter, Bert Andrews, had been very critical of HUAC and other security agencies for being sloppy in recent investigations.  Nixon used him as a sounding board and devil's advocate in this Case and Andrews became a fascinated eyewitness to these and later crucial moments.  Andrews' posthumous memoir, “A Tragedy of History:  A Journalist's Confidential Role in the Hiss-Chambers Case,”  by Bert and Peter Andrews (1962) at 72-77 describes Andrews' first chats with Nixon and Chambers.  Andrews says that Chambers, when he needed time to shape his answers to questions, paused for 30-40 seconds and looked like he had gone into a trance.  Nixon, by the way, did not include Stripling in his deliberations at this phase. Questions:  You're Richard Nixon.  How do you decide whether to risk your whole career by supporting Chambers all the way?  How do you verify or discredit all the (alleged) facts about the Hisses' life in 1934-37 that Chambers divulged in his secret testimony?  Use HUAC's staff, obviously.  How else?  How do you get to know Chambers and form an opinion about his honesty (and perhaps sanity)?  Remember, he doesn't have to talk to you if he doesn't want to.  How can you investigate his past and see if there's anything fishy there?  How do you deter the natural pro-Hiss inclination of the Republican Establishment, which is itself invested in Hiss?  (Hiss's mentor at the Carnegie Endowment is John Foster Dulles, chief foreign policy advisor to Republican Presidential candidate Thomas E. Dewey.)  Assuming you decide to ‘bet the farm' on Chambers, how do you get the news media involved so that this Case becomes Nixon's Triumph and not HUACs?  How do you separate yourself in the public mind from HUAC and launch a spectacular career of your own without earning the undying hatred of those you leave behind — Bob Stripling and the other members of HUAC?      

Måns Hirschfeldt om konstnären Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd som gick sin egen väg genom 60-talet och om ett av hans mest kända verk - en annons införd på sidan 10 i New York Herald Tribune i januari 1963. Det är ett minimalt konstverk, bara 5 gånger 45 millimeter, men gesten var desto större: Reuterswärd trängde sig in mellan världsnyheterna bara för att meddela att han tänkte stänga butiken i 9 år. Vilket han förstås inte gjorde men när konstnären gick bort 2016 så stod det Closed for holidays i tidningarnas dödsannonser stängt för semester.

Måns Hirschfeldt om konstnären Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd som gick sin egen väg genom 60-talet och om ett av hans mest kända verk - en annons införd på sidan 10 i New York Herald Tribune i januari 1963. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. Det är ett minimalt konstverk, bara 5 gånger 45 millimeter, men gesten var desto större: Reuterswärd trängde sig in mellan världsnyheterna bara för att meddela att han tänkte stänga butiken i 9 år. Vilket han förstås inte gjorde men när konstnären gick bort 2016 så stod det ”Closed for holidays” i tidningarnas dödsannonser – stängt för semester.

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Radiotopia is a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts that's a part of PRX, a not-for-profit public media company. If you'd like to directly support this show and independent media, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate. A note on notes: We'd much rather you just went into each episode of The Memory Palace cold. And just let the story take you where it well. So, we don't suggest looking into the show notes first. Music Pollen by H.Takahashi and, later, Photosynthese. The New York Herald Tribune by Martial Solal Trying Something Again, Again by Lullatone Wiffle Ball from Joel P. West's score for Short Term 12 The title theme to Cani Arrabbiati Increase by David Lang and Alarm Will Sound Nijuichi by Sylvain Chaveau Occam II for Violin by Eliane Radigue Drunken Aviator by the (great, truly) Ida. Eyes Closed and Travelling by Peter Broderick Notes If you are looking to read more about Betty, I'd suggest Rosanne Montillo's terrific book, Fire on the Track.

Harry M. Rosenfeld died this week at his home in Slingerlands, NY. He was a child refugee from Nazi Germany. Harry was a key figure in the Washington Post's coverage of The Watergate break in and scandal as managing editor. He even hired Bob Woodward. He had a 50 year career in the newspaper business including working at The New York Herald Tribune, and being the top editor of two Albany NY newspapers. His philosophy on journalism from his 2013 memoir was "holding to account the accountable, the more powerful the better.” I interviewed Harry shortly after he released his book "Battling Editor: The Albany Years" in 2019. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steve-richards/support

"See what it gets you" as hosts Bobby and Kristina discuss 1964's Anyone Can Whistle on episode seven of My Favorite Flop.   ABOUT ANYONE CAN WHISTLE Described by theater historian Ken Mandelbaum as "a satire on conformity and the insanity of the so-called sane," Anyone Can Whistle tells the story of an economically-depressed town whose corrupt Mayoress, in an attempt to draw tourists, decides to create a fake "miracle" - which draws the attention of Fay Apple, an emotionally inhibited nurse, a crowd of inmates from a local asylum called "The Cookie Jar," and a "doctor" with secrets of his own. The musical features a book by Arthur Laurents and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Following a tryout period in Philadelphia, Anyone Can Whistle opened at the Majestic Theater on Broadway on April 4, 1964 to widely varied reviews (including negative notices from the New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune). It closed after a run of 12 previews and 9 performances and in the decades since its closing, it has not been produced on the scale of other Sondheim musicals; notable productions include a 1995 concert version at Carnegie Hall, a pair of stagings in London and Los Angeles in 2003 that incorporated revisions, and a 2010 concert staging for the Encores! program at New York City Center. Its score, however, has become an acclaimed part of Sondheim's canon, and songs such as the title tune, "Everybody Says Don't", and "There Won't Be Trumpets" have been widely performed. The show is also known for marking the stage musical debut of Angela Lansbury.   Original Broadway Cast Angela Lansbury as Cora Hoover Hooper Lee Remick as Fay Apple Harry Guardino as J. Bowden Hapgood Gabriel Dell as Comptroller Schub James Frawley as Chief Magruder Don Doherty as Dr. Detmold Peg Murray as Mrs. Schroeder Arnold Soboloff as Treasurer Cooley Jeanne Tanzy as Baby Joan Harvey Evans as John/One Of The Boys/Cookie/Townsperson/Etc Sterling Clark as One Of The Boys/Cookie/Townsperson/Etc Larry Roquemore as George/One Of The Boys/Cookie/Townsperson/Etc Tucker Smith as One Of The Boys/Cookie/Townsperson/Etc Georgia Creighton as Osgood/Cookie/Townsperson/Etc Alan Johnson as Telegraph Boy/Cookie/Townsperson/Etc Janet Hayes as June/Cookie/Townsperson/Etc Jeff Killion as Sandwich Man/Cookie/Townsperson/Etc Eleonore Treiber as Old Lady/Cookie/Townsperson/Etc Lester Wilson as Martin/Cookie/Townsperson/Etc Susan Borree as Cookie/Townsperson/Etc Eugene Edwards as Cookie/Townsperson/Etc Dick Ensslen as Cookie/Townsperson/Etc Loren Hightower as Cookie/Townsperson/Etc Bettye Jenkins as Cookie/Townsperson/Etc Patricia Kelly as Cookie/Townsperson/Etc Barbara Lang as Cookie/Townsperson/Etc Paula Lloyd as Cookie/Townsperson/Etc Barbara Monte as Cookie/Townsperson/Etc Jack Murray as Cookie/Townsperson/Etc Odette Phillips as Cookie/Townsperson/Etc William Reilly as Cookie/Townsperson/Etc Hanne Marie Reiner as Cookie/Townsperson/Etc Donald Stewart as Cookie/Townsperson/Etc

NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE! NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE! You guessed it, it's... oh wait, it's not Breathless. BUT! it's the actress who starred in it! Well, technically it's Kristen Stewart playing Jean Seberg, the actress who was in it..... Consolation prize? The gang tackles "SEBERG"

Nothing that’s happened had to happen, or must happen again. That’s why historians aren’t prophets. Wars, booms, busts, inventions, breakthroughs – none of those things were inevitable. They happened, and they’ll keep happening in various forms. But specific events that shape history are always low-probability events. Their surprise is what causes them to leave a mark. And they were surprising specifically because they weren’t inevitable. A lot of things have to go right (or wrong) to move the needle in what is an otherwise random swarm of eight billion people on earth just trying to make it through the day. The problem when studying historical events is that you know how the story ends, and it’s impossible to un-remember what you know today when thinking about the past. It’s hard to imagine alternative paths of history when the actual path is already known. So things always look more inevitable than they were. Now let me tell you a story about the Great Depression. “After booms come busts,” is about as close to economic law as it gets. Study history, and the calamity that followed the booming 1920s, late 1990s, and early 2000s seems more than obvious. It seems inevitable. In October 1929 – the peak of history’s craziest stock bubble and eve of the Great Depression – economist Irving Fisher famously told an audience that “stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.” We look at these comments today and laugh. How could someone so smart be so blind to something so inevitable? If you follow the rule that the crazier the boom, the harder the bust, the Great Depression must have been obvious. But Fisher was a smart guy. And he wasn’t alone. In an interview years ago I asked Robert Shiller, who won the Nobel Prize for his work on bubbles, about the inevitability of the Great Depression. He responded: Well, nobody forecasted that. Zero. Nobody. Now there were, of course, some guys who were saying the stock market is overpriced. But if you look at what they said, did that mean a depression is coming? A decade-long depression? No one said that. I have asked economic historians to give me the name of someone who predicted the depression, and it comes up zero. That stuck with me. Here we are, bloated with hindsight, knowing the crash after the roaring 1920s was obvious and inevitable. But for those who lived through it – people for whom the 1930s was a yet-to-be-discovered future – it was anything but. Two things can explain something that looks inevitable but wasn’t predicted by those who experienced it at the time: Either everyone in the past fell for a blinding delusion. Or everyone in the present is blinded by hindsight. We are crazy to think it’s all the former and none the latter. The article will attempt to show what people were thinking in the two years before the Great Depression. I’ll do so with newspaper clippings sourced from the Library of Congress chronicling what people actually said at the time. People who were just as smart as we are today and who wanted to avoid calamity as much as we do today – what were they thinking just before the economy collapsed into the Great Depression? People who were susceptible to the same behavioral quirks and humble laws of statistics as we are today – what did they think of their booming economy? How did they feel? What did they forecast? What worried them? What arguments were convincing to them? History is only interesting because nothing is inevitable. To better understand the stories we believe about our own future, we must first try to understand the views of people who didn’t yet know how their story would end. To understand the mood of the late 1920s you have to understand what the country went through a decade prior. One hundred sixteen thousand Americans died in World War I. Almost 700,000 died from the Spanish Flu outbreak in 1918. As the war and the flu came to an end in 1919, America became gripped by one of its worst recessions of modern times. Business activity fell 38% as the economy transitioned from wartime production to regular business. Unemployment hit 12%. The triple hit of war, flu, and depression took a toll on morale. The Wall Street Journal, December 18th, 1920. “The war clouds darken the sky no more, but clouds of business depression and stagnation obscure the sun.” The Wall Street Journal, April 7th, 1921. “The economic outlook was never so complex as it is now.” Los Angeles Times, November 11th 1921. It’s vital to point this pessimism out, because an important part of the late-1920s boom is understanding how desperate people were for good news after a decade of national misery. As the clouds began to part in the mid-1920s, Americans were so exhausted from what they’d been through that they were quick to grab onto any signs of progress they could find. Historian Frederick Lewis Allen wrote in the 1930s: Like an overworked businessman beginning his vacation, the country had had to go through a period of restlessness and irritability, but was finally learning how to relax and amuse itself once more. A sense of disillusionment remained; like the suddenly liberated vacationist, the country felt that it ought to be enjoying itself more than it was, and that life was futile and nothing mattered much. But in the meantime it might as well play – following the crowd, take up the new toys that were amusing the crowd. By 1924 there’s a distinct shift in tone among the business press. The Baltimore Sun, January 1, 1924: America had endured more trauma than at any point since the Civil War in a way that left it shaken, scared, and skeptical. By 1928 the final traces of that fear subsided, and its people were ready to embrace the peace and prosperity they wanted so badly. Once secured, they had no intention of letting go and going back to where they were. On June 18th, 1927 the Washington Post wrote a headline that explains so much of what would took place over the next two years: One thing that sticks out about the late 1920s is the idea that prosperity wasn’t only alive, but was immortal. Those promoting this belief were not subtle. The New York Herald, August 12th, 1928: The Los Angeles Times, December 23rd, 1928: The Boston Globe, January 2nd 1928: The Christian Science Monitor, February 27th, 1928: The notion that recessions had been eliminated is easy to laugh at. But you have to consider three things about the 1920s that made the idea seem feasible. One is that the four inventions that transformed the 1920s – electricity, cars, the airplane, and the radio, and – seemed indistinguishable from magic to most Americans. They were more transformational to the economy than anything since the steam engine, and changed the way the average American lived day to day than perhaps any other technology before or since. Technology that spreads so far, so fast, and deeply tends to create an era of optimism, and a belief that humans can solve any problem no matter how difficult it looks. When you go from a horse to an airplane in one generation, taming the business cycle doesn’t sound outrageous, does it? The New York Times, May 15th, 1929: A second factor that made the end of recessions seem feasible was the idea that World War I was the “war to end all wars.” The documentary How to Live Forever asks a group of centenarians what the happiest day of their life was. “Armistice Day” one woman says, referring to the 1918 agreement that ended World War I. “Why?” the producer asks. “Because we knew there would be no more wars ever again,” she says. When you believe the world has entered an era of permanent peace, assuming permanent prosperity will follow isn’t a big stretch. The Boston Globe, October 6th, 1928: A third argument for why prosperity would be permanent was the diversification of the global economy. Manufacturing was to the 1920s what technology was to the 2000s – a new industry with big wages and seemingly endless growth. But unlike technology today, manufacturing was incredibly labor-intensive, providing good jobs for tens of millions of Americans. A new and powerful industry can create a sense that past rules of boom and bust no longer apply, because the economy has a new quiver in its belt. The LA Times, January 1st, 1929: That same day, Chicago Daily Tribune: Beyond the permanence of prosperity, optimism over technology and its ability to pull rural farmers into the new middle class gave the impression that the gains had barely begun. The Christian Science Monitor, May 15th, 1929: The view was shared outside of the United States. The Los Angeles Times, December 12th, 1928: Around the world, people wanted a piece of what America had. The Hartford Courant, August 6th, 1928: The Hartford Courant, May 16th, 1929, described “conditions more or less permanent” and “fears for the future seem increasingly without foundation.” Little things Americans could hardly consider a few years before became reality. After huge budget deficits to finance the war, government coffers were flush. The New York Times, June 27th, 1927: Consumer debt, we know in hindsight, was a major cause of the crash and depression. But at the time growing credit was seen as a good, clean fuel. The Washington Post, February 19th, 1929: When we look back at the late 1920s we think about crazy stock market valuations and shoe-shine boys giving stock tips. But that’s not what people paid attention to at the time. The newspapers are filled with charts like these: rational, level-headed, and fuel for optimism. The Wall Street Journal, December 31, 1928: Stocks were surging. But it looked justified, backed by real business values. The Wall Street Journal, March 5th, 1929: As manufacturing became a driving force of employment, workers discovered bargaining power in a way they never considered before, working on farms. The Washington Post, November 25th, 1928: Growing middle-class wages seemed to open endless possibilities. The Washington Post, November 13th, 1928: The New York Times put several of these arguments together on May 12th, 1929: The New York Herald, January 2nd, 1929: It’s hard to overstate how transformation these developments were to average Americans, particularly in light of the previous decade’s trauma. The New York Herald Tribune, October 14th, 1929: In 1920 Americans were out of work and desperate for a paycheck. Nine years later, the top national goal was promoting leisure time. The New York Herald Tribune September 30th, 1929: By 1929 the stock market had increased five-fold in the previous decade. Average earnings were at an all-time high. Unemployment was near an all-time low. Frederick Lewis Allen wrote: “This was a new era. Prosperity was coming into full and perfect flower.” A popular saying of the day, Allen writes, was “Prosperity due for a decline? Why, man, we’ve scarcely started!” “ It was a party, and no one wanted to stop dancing. To me the most fascinating part of the 1920s boom is what it did to American culture. Wealth quickly became the center topic of not just commerce, but values, happiness, and even religion. It took on a new place of importance that didn’t exist in previous generations when it was both lower and more concentrated. The New York Herald Tribune, February 11th, 1929: The Baltimore Sun, July 21st, 1929: Ladies’ Home Journal, June 5th, 1929: The Washington Post, June 6th, 1928: The New York Amsterdam News, January 5th, 1928: The New York Times, August 19th, 1928: Across the world, heads turned and respect grew. Chicago Daily Tribune, January 28th, 1929: In just a few years prosperity had taken on a new role in America – not something to dream about, but something that was secured today, guaranteed tomorrow, and sat at the center of what made Americans American. On September 10th, 1929, The Wall Street Journal wrote: Three weeks later, Irving Fisher made this famous proclamation: On October 1st, 1929, the Pittsburgh Courier sounded a faint alarm, warning that prosperity was a mental state subject to change: No one, though, could fathom what was in store next. The stock market lost a third of its value in the last few days of October, 1929. The immediate response was shock, but not dread. On October 26th The New York Times published an article titled, “‘All Well’ is View of Business Chiefs.” It quotes a dozen prominent businessmen: Arthur W. Loasby, president of the Equitable Trust Company: “There will be no repetition of the break of yesterday. The market fell of its own weight without regard to fundamental business conditions, which are sound. I have no fear of another comparable decline.” J.L. Julian, partner of the New York Stock Exchange firm of Fenner & Beane: “The worst is over. The selling yesterday was panicky brought on by hysteria. General conditions are good. Our inquires assure us that business throughout the country is sound.” M.C. Brush, president of the American International Corporation: “I do not look for a recurrence of Thursday and believe that the very best stocks can be bought at approximate present prices.” R.B. White, president of the Central Railroad of New Jersey: “There is nothing alarming in the situation as regards business. Business will continue the way it had. Plans in the railroad for the future have in no way been changed.” Three days later the market crashed again. It would not recover its losses until 1954. The first response to the crash was to view it as a temporary blip, and permanent prosperity would soon resume. The New York Times, October 30th, 1929: The Wall Street Journal, October 29th, 1929: The Boston Daily Globe, October 30th, 1929: The New York Times, October 30th, 1929: Barron’s, November 30th, 1929: Some saw the crash as a blessing, and an opportunity to simplify life that evolved so quickly in the previous five years. The New York Times, November 13th, 1929: The Christian Science Monitor, November 25th, 1929: Chicago Daily Tribune, November 26th, 1929: On New Year’s Eve 1929, as a year that began so bright came to such a shocking end, the Wall Street Journal made a friendly reminder: Keep investing, and you’ll undoubtedly have more money a year from now: Over the next three years the Great Depression put 12 million Americans out of work. The stock market fell 89%, reverting to levels last seen 36 years prior. GDP fell 27%. Prices fell 10% per year. Nine thousand banks failed, erasing $150 billion in American checking and savings accounts. Births declined 17%. Divorce rose by a third. Suicides rose by half. The depression gave rise to Adolf Hitler in Germany, setting the course for a world war that would go on to impact nearly every aspect of life we know today. It was, without question, one of the most consequential events of modern history. And when we look back at what people were thinking before it began, the question remains: Did they know? Did they have any clue? Were they blind to the inevitable? Or did they just suffer a terrible fate that wasn’t inevitable? There has never been a period in history where the majority of people didn’t look dumb in hindsight. People are good at analyzing and predicting things they know and can see. But they cannot think about or prepare for events they can’t fathom. These out-of-the-blue events go on to be the most consequential events of history, so when we look back it’s hard to understand why few people cared or prepared. The phrase “hindsight is 20/20” doesn’t seem right, because 20/20 implies everything coming into a clear view. In reality, hindsight makes most people look dumber than they actually were. Whether something is inevitable only matters if people know it’s inevitable. Knowing a decline is inevitable lets you prepare for it before it happens, and contextualize it when it does. The only important part of this story, I hope I have convinced you, is that no one saw the Great Depression as inevitable before it happened. I don’t think you can call the people of the late 1920s oblivious without answering the question, “Oblivious to what?” A future no one predicted? Consequences no one envisioned? Ignoring advice that no one gave? At the end of World War II it was assumed by most that, stripped of wartime spending, the economy would slip back into the depths of depression that preceded the war. We know today that it did not – it went on to prosper like never before. So were people oblivious in 1945? After the stock market crash of 1987, one investor recently recalled, “I remember an uneasy feeling as pundits predicted the start of the next Great Depression and the end of prosperity, as we knew it.” Instead, the 1990s were the most prosperous decade in history. Were we oblivious in 1987, too? The fact that we avoided depression in 1945, 1987 – and 2009 – might be the best evidence that the actual depression of the 1930s wasn’t inevitable. You can say, “Well, in 1945 the banking system didn’t collapse, and the 1990s were lucky because of the internet,” and so on. But no one in 1945 or 1990 knew those things, just as no one in 1929 knew their future. It’s not hard to imagine a world where policy responses were a little different, a presidential election tipped a different way, a second world war began a decade before it did, and the economic story of the 1930s playing out differently than it did. But we never get to hear the stories of what could have been or almost was. We only think something is inevitable if it’s obvious. And things only look obvious when everyone’s talking about them and predicting them. When you look back at what people said in the late 1920s – their confidence, their clarity, their logic – you can’t help but wonder what we are confident in today that will look foolish in the future. What those things might be, I don’t know. It wasn’t obvious in the 1920s. It won’t be obvious in the 2020s. That’s what makes history interesting – nothing’s inevitable. http://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/history-is-only-interesting-because-nothing-is-inevitable/ gave rise togo on to impact nearly every aspect of lifeprepare for events they can’t fathomit was assumed by most

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to announced on-line and streaming local theatre & book events   Bookwaves Roger Kahn, who died on February 6, 2020 at the age of 92, was one of the icons in the world of baseball writing. His classic “The Boys of Summer,” about his relationship with his father and their united love for the Brooklyn Dodgers, is one of the greatest baseball books of all time. He started his career in journalism in 1948 as a copyboy for the New York Herald Tribune and within four years was covering the Dodgers for that newspaper. He moved over to Newsweek in 1956 and the Saturday Evening Post in 1963 as he revved up his career writing both fiction and non-fiction books, mostly but not exclusively about baseball, and the ups and downs of his own life. On October 13, 1993, Richard A. Lupoff and Richard Wolinsky sat down for an extended interview with Roger Kahn about his book, “The Era: 1947-1957, when the Yankees, the Giants and the Dodgers Ruled the World. “ It turned out he was a marvelous raconteur, as well as a keen historian of racism in the sport. In fact, his final book, published in 2014, was titled “Rickey and Robinson: The True, Untold Story of the Integration of Baseball.”  (Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson). Dick Lupoff and Richard Wolinsky would interview Roger Kahn once more, in 1998, but that interview focused not on baseball but on a biography of boxer Jack Dempsey. After this interview, Roger Kahn would go on to write six more books, including not only the history of the early days of integration, and the biography of Dempsey, but a memoir of the people he met, a book about the view from the pitching mound, and a history of the New York Yankees improbable run for the pennant in 1978. Digitized, remastered and re-edited in 2020 by Richard Wolinsky. This interview has not aired since its original broadcast. This program was uploaded before the cancellation of several major league games protesting the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Digitized, remastered and re-edited in August, 2020 by Richard Wolinsky. This interview has not been aired since its original broadcast. Complete 68-minute Radio Wolinsky podcast.   Announcement Links Book Passage. Conversations with Authors features Ursula Hegi on Saturday August 29, Pramala Jayapal and Sunday August 30, both at 4 pm Pacific time. The Booksmith presents Vanessa Veselka in conversation with Emma Donoghue tonight at 7 pm, at Sara Jaquette Ray on Monday August 31 at 7 pm, and the book launch for Meg Elison's new novel Find Layla on Tuesday September 1 at 7 pm. Kepler's Books presents Refresh the Page, on line interviews and talks. Registration required. Bay Area Book Festival features Michael Pollan and Merlin Sheldrake on Entangled Life and the world of Fungi, which first aired on Wednesday August 26. Theatre Rhino Live Thursday performance conceived and performed by John Fisher on Facebook Live and Zoom at 8 pm Thursday August 27 is Saint John Fisher. San Francisco Playhouse fireside chat Thursday August 27 at 7 pm is Betty Shameih with Bill English. No Zoomlet play this coming Monday. American Conservatory Theatre (ACT) begins a series of live then streamed ticketed productions, titled InterAct, starting on September 4 with In Love and Warcraft by Madhuri Shekar. Tickets on sale on the website. 42nd Street Moon. 8 pm Tuesdays: Tuesday Talks Over the Moon. Fridays at 8 pm: Full Moon Fridays Cabaret. Sundays at 8 pm: Quiz Me Kate: Musical Theatre Trivia. Shotgun Players.  Live streamed Digital Brain with Josh Kornbluth begins October 16, 2020. Tickets on sale on the website. Berkeley Rep. Another live performance by Hershey Felder, George Gershwin Alone, airs on Sunday September 13 at 5 pm. Tickets on sale on the website. TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. Another live performance by Hershey Felder, George Gershwin Alone, airs on Sunday September 13 at 5 pm. Tickets on sale on the website. TheatreWorks' production of the musical Pride and Prejudice is now streaming with an Amazon Prime subscription. California Shakepeare Theatre (Cal Shakes) has various offerings on its You Tube channel. Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts new on-line programming series featuring classes, concerts, poetry sessions and more.. Aurora Theatre. A new ticketed audio drama, The Flats, written by Lauren Gunderson, Cleaven Smith and Jonathan Spector, with Lauren English, Anthony Fusco and Khary L. Moye, directed by Josh Costello, will stream this fall, date to be announced. Marin Theatre Company Aldo Billingslea performs Three Story Walk Up by Gamel Abdel Chasen as part of the Breath Project, streaming on the site. Lauren Gunderson's play Natural Shocks streams through Soundcloud on the website. Contra Costa Civic Theatre presents the play Ten Out of Twelve by Anne Washburn Monday August 31 at 7 pm on Zoom. SFBATCO presents a series titled Hella Theatre with Peter J. Kuo of ACT tonight at 6 pm. It's a weekly show and this is episode three, Directing in Color. Central Works The Script Club, where you read the script of a new play and send comments to the playwright. September script has not yet been announced. Lincoln Center Live Through September 8, 2020: Carousel, with Kelli O'Hara & Nathan Gunn. Public Theatre: The Line streams through the website. A radio recording of Richard II is also available through the website. If you'd like to add your bookstore or theatre venue to this list, please write bookwaves@hotmail.com. The post Bookwaves/Artwaves – August 27, 2020: Roger Kahn and the Boys of Summer appeared first on KPFA.

Roger Kahn, who died on February 6, 2020 at the age of 92, was one of the icons in the world of baseball writing. His classic “The Boys of Summer,” about his relationship with his father and their united love for the Brooklyn Dodgers, is one of the greatest baseball books of all time. He started his career in journalism in 1948 as a copyboy for the New York Herald Tribune and within four years was covering the Dodgers for that newspaper. He moved over to Newsweek in 1956 and the Saturday Evening Post in 1963 as he revved up his career writing both fiction and non-fiction books, mostly but not exclusively about baseball, and the ups and downs of his own life. On October 13, 1993, Richard A. Lupoff and Richard Wolinsky sat down for an extended interview with Roger Kahn about his book, “The Era: 1947-1957, when the Yankees, the Giants and the Dodgers Ruled the World. “ It turned out he was a marvelous raconteur, as well as a keen historian of racism in the sport. In fact, his final book, published in 2014, was titled “Rickey and Robinson: The True, Untold Story of the Integration of Baseball.”  (Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson). Dick Lupoff and Richard Wolinsky would interview Roger Kahn once more, in 1998, but that interview focused not on baseball but on a biography of boxer Jack Dempsey. After this interview, Roger Kahn would go on to write six more books, including not only the history of the early days of integration, and the biography of Dempsey, but a memoir of the people he met, a book about the view from the pitching mound, and a history of the New York Yankees improbable run for the pennant in 1978. Digitized, remastered and re-edited in 2020 by Richard Wolinsky. This interview has not aired since its original broadcast, and never in its full length.   The post Roger Kahn (1927-2020): The Boys of Summer appeared first on KPFA.

This week we are chatting with Vivien Wood about one of the biggest musicals of all time that is named after an ocean - South Pacific!The New York Herald Tribune wrote: The new and much-heralded musical, South Pacific, is a show of rare enchantment. It is novel in texture and treatment, rich in dramatic substance, and eloquent in song, a musical play to be cherished. Under Logan's superb direction, the action shifts with constant fluency. ... [He] has kept the book cumulatively arresting and tremendously satisfying. The occasional dances appear to be magical improvisations. It is a long and prodigal entertainment, but it seems all too short. The Rodgers music is not his finest, but it fits the mood and pace of South Pacific so felicitously that one does not miss a series of hit tunes. In the same way the lyrics are part and parcel of a captivating musical unity.VIdeo Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeXvaHZj5twhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pacific_(musical)https://stageagent.com/shows/musical/898/south-pacifichttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052225/Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon!Email us: musicalstaughtmepodcast@gmail.comVisit our home on the web thatsnotcanonproductions.comOur theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smith. Find out more about him at www.benedictbraxtonsmith.com Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/musicals-taught-me-everything-i-know. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome back TWGTF fans for this episode Ben tasked Tyler with picking two films written by two other filmmakers. For the first film Tyler dug into his French New Wave bag and pulled out Jean-Luc Godard first film from 1960 with a story written by Francois Truffaut Breathless. Then following that we have the Oliver Stone directed based off a story by Quentin Tarantino the 1994 film Natural Born Killers. The boys talk about two very different films, or are they? Spoiler: Yes they are. Best thing Tyler watched: Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator and Dumb: The Story of Big Brother Magazine Best thing Ben watched: Zoolander 2 and Return of the Living Dead 00:00-06:29: Intro 06:30-13:13: Best thing we watched 13:14-13:48: Breathless intro 13:49-16:48: “New York Herald Tribune!” 16:49-38:29: Breathless discussion 38:30-38:40: Natural Born Killers Intro? 38:41-45:01: “Stay tuned after the big game (the super bowl) for a special interview with Mikey...” 45:02-1:35:02: Natural Born Killers discussion 1:35:03-1:51:18: Coming Attractions/Outro

Season 15, Episode 3. Ngaji Filsafat - Dr. Fahruddin Faiz R.M.P. Sosrokartono atau Raden Mas Panji Sosrokartono (lahir di Pelemkerep, Mayong, Jepara, 10 April 1877 – meninggal di Bandung, Indonesia, 8 Februari 1952 pada umur 74 tahun). Sebagai putra dari R.M. Ario Sosrodiningrat, R.M.P Sosrokartono adalah kakak kandung R.A. Kartini, yang memberi inspirasi R.A. Kartini untuk menjadi tokoh emansipasi wanita. Semenjak kecil telah menunjukkan kepandaiannya, setelah tamat dari Europesche Lagere School di Jepara, Sosrokartono meneruskan pendidikannya ke H.B.S. di Semarang. Selanjutnya pada tahun 1898, Sosrokartono meneruskan sekolahnya ke negeri Belanda dengan masuk di Sekolah Teknik Tinggi Leiden. Namun demikian, karena merasa tidak cocok, ia pun pindah ke Jurusan Bahasa dan Kesusastraan Timur hingga lulus dengan menggenggam gelar Doctorandus in de Oostersche Talen dari Perguruan Tinggi Leiden. Beliau merupakan mahasiswa Indonesia pertama yang meneruskan pendidikan ke negeri Belanda, yang pada urutannya disusul oleh putera-putera Indonesia lainnya. Profesi R.M.P. Sosrokartono memiliki beberapa profesi karena kejeniusannya sehingga dia dijuluki "Si Jenius dari Timur" dan "De Javanese Prins", di antaranya: Wartawan Perang Dunia I, dari harian The New York Herald Tribune di kota Wina (Austria) semenjak 1917. Dalam buku "Memoirs" tulisan Muhammad Hatta, dituliskan bahwa Sosrokartono memperoleh gaji sebesar USD 1250. Bahkan guna memudahkan pergerakannya selama Perang Dunia I, ia diberi pangkat Mayor oleh Panglima Perang Amerika Serikat. Prestasinya yang lain, Sosrokartono adalah seorang wartawan pertama di Indonesia yang bisa memotret kawah Gunung Kawi dari atas udara, tanpa menggunakan pesawat terbang. Dalam Sejarah Dunia, Perundingan Perdamaian Perang Dunia ke I yang resmi berlangsung di kota Versailles (Prancis). Ketika banyak wartawan yang mencium adanya 'perundingan perdamaian rahasia' masih sibuk mencari informasi, koran Amerika The New York Herald Tribune ternyata telah berhasil memuat hasil perundingan perdamaian rahasia di hutan Champaigne, Prancis Selatan yang menggemparkan Amerika dan Eropa. Penulisnya 'anonim', hanya menggunakan kode pengenal 'Bintang Tiga'. Kode tersebut di kalangan wartawan Perang Dunia ke I dikenal sebagai kode dari wartawan perang R.M.P. Sosrokartono. Dalam 'Memoir' tulisan Muhammad Hatta ditulis bahwa R.M.P. Sosrokartono yang menguasai bahasa Basque, menjadi penerjemah pasukan Sekutu kala melewati daerah suku Basque menjelang akhir Perang Dunia I, diadakan perundingan perdamaian rahasia antara pihak yang bertikai. Suku Basque adalah salah satu suku yang hidup di Spanyol. Pihak-pihak yang berunding naik kereta api dan berhenti di hutan Compaigne di Prancis Selatan. Di dalam kereta api, pihak yang bertikai melakukan perundingan perdamaian rahasia. Di sekitar tempat perundingan telah dijaga ketat oleh tentara dan tidak sembarangan orang apalagi wartawan boleh mendekati tempat perundingan dalam radius 1 km. Semua hasil perundingan perdamaian rahasia tidak boleh disiarkan, dikenakan embargo sampai perundingan yang resmi berlangsung. Penerjemah di Wina (Austria), dengan menguasai 24 bahasa asing dan 10 bahasa daerah di Nusantara. Tahun 1919 didirikan Liga Bangsa-Bangsa (League of Nations) atas prakarsa Presiden Amerika Serikat Woodrow Wilson. Dari tahun 1919 sampai 1921, R.M.P. Sosrokartono menjadi anak Bumiputra yang mampu menjabat sebagai Kepala penerjemah untuk semua bahasa yang digunakan di Liga Bangsa-Bangsa. Bahkan dia berhasil mengalahkan para poliglot (ahli bahasa) dari Eropa dan Amerika sehingga meraih jabatan tersebut. Liga Bangsa-Bangsa kemudian berubah nama menjadi Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa (United Nations Organization) pada tahun 1921.

This week we chat with Steve Norris about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the Romeo and Juliet inspired and Stephen Sondheim’s first lyrical outing - West Side Story!Walter Kerr wrote in the New York Herald Tribune on September 27, 1957: The radioactive fallout from West Side Story must still be descending on Broadway this morning. Director, choreographer, and idea-man Jerome Robbins has put together, and then blasted apart, the most savage, restless, electrifying dance patterns we've been exposed to in a dozen seasons .... the show rides with a catastrophic roar over the spider-web fire-escapes, the shadowed trestles, and the plain dirt battlegrounds of a big city feud ... there is fresh excitement in the next debacle, and the next. When a gang leader advises his cohorts to play it "Cool", the intolerable tension between an effort at control and the instinctive drives of these potential killers is stingingly graphic. When the knives come out, and bodies begin to fly wildly through space under buttermilk clouds, the sheer visual excitement is breathtaking .... Mr. Bernstein has permitted himself a few moments of graceful, lingering melody: in a yearning "Maria", in the hushed falling line of "Tonight", in the wistful declaration of "I Have a Love". But for the most part he has served the needs of the onstage threshing machine ... When hero Larry Kert is stomping out the visionary insistence of "Something's Coming" both music and tumultuous story are given their due. Otherwise it's the danced narrative that takes urgent precedence ...- FURTHER READING -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Side_Storyhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055614/https://itunes.apple.com/au/movie/west-side-story/id253021356https://open.spotify.com/album/3knRTstKrILa8wx8IGGqn6https://westsidestory.com.au/Like us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon!Email us: musicalstaughtmepodcast@gmail.comVisit our home on the web thatsnotcanonproductions.comOur theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smith. Find out more about him at www.benedictbraxtonsmith.com

In 1956, the New York Herald Tribune published a series of articles by Ansel Talbert naming research institutes that were studying the secrets of anti-gravity in the 1950s by focusing on electromagnetism, high speed rotation, and various methods of reducing an aircraft's mass.

A new type of question and answer game in which the public quiz the professionals. The public are invited to send in questions with their answers and if they are used on the show the sender gets $2. Further more if the professionals get them wrong the sender gets a further $5. The show was created and run by Dan Golenpaul whose idea was to reverse the typical type of quiz show by allowing an intelligent, educated public ask the questions and put the alleged authorities on the spot. He certainly got the mix right by employing Clifton Fadiman as moderator of a panel of four experts, which would always include 2 or 3 regulars and guest personalities. Fadiman himself came from a background in books being a book critic for the New Yorker. Other regulars included Science writer Bernard Jaffe, professor of philosophy Dr Harry Overstreet, Marcus Duffield of the New York Herald-Tribune and later John Kieran a sport's columnist for the New York Times and Oscar Levant a pianist and composer. What all of these had in common was their broad interests and knowledge and quick and slicing wit. The intellectual questions were a catalyst for talk and the hilarious humor that emerged. "An uproarious error or a brilliant bit of irreverence was rated far above any dull deliverance of the truth," wrote John Kieran, one of the four major personalities. Go ahead and sample any of these shows and I guarantee you won't be disappointed. Broadcast Date: January 3, 1944 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dennis-moore9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dennis-moore9/support

In the sixth episode, Hazel publishes her first short story in the US and meets a certain gentleman. Inka starts to make travel plans. A podcast about the journey of finding the forgotten American writer Hazel Hawthorne. This podcast is produced by Inka Leisma and Essi Isomäki. Hosted by Inka Leisma. Quoting the New York Herald Tribune from March 29th 1931. Hazel Hawthorne’s letter to Edmund Wilson quoted with permission of the Hazel Hawthorne Estate, available at Edmund Wilson Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Morris Werner’s Unpublished memoirs cited with permission of the Hazel Hawthorne Estate, available at Morris Werner Papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library. Hazel Hawthorne's application cited courtesy of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Background music and audio clips from Albert Marlowe and Freesound users prometheus888 and chestnutjam. Theme song by Studio Le Bus.

Well, the time we've waited for all year is here; it’s time to harvest tomatoes.   I want to give you just a quick word of caution when it comes to harvesting your tomatoes. As gardeners, sometimes we wait too long to harvest them. Sometimes that can be unintentional, and other times, we think that letting them stay on the vine is best.   However, if you wait too long, the tomatoes split.   This is especially true with heirloom tomatoes.   If you’re growing heirlooms it’s best to let them ripen in a cool, dark, place. Don’t be tempted to put them on a sunny window or countertop. They won't appreciate the view or the attention. Remember, heirloom tomatoes, are very fragile. The price for their fantastic flavor? Lots of TLC.    Brevities   #OTD   Today is the birthday of horticulturalist Frank Cabot who was born on this day in 1925. It’s hard to believe that we lost Frank just eight years ago. He was a tremendous gardener and we owe him a debt of gratitude for his work in founding the nonprofit The Garden Conservancy.   Cabot lived until the age of 86 and he spent his life perfecting his 20-acre English-style garden and estate.   His masterpiece garden is known as Les Quatre Vents, or the Four Winds, and it’s been in his family for over 100 years.   There's a wonderful video of an interview that Martha Stewart did with Frank. He tells about the moon bridge being a copy of a moon bridge from Seven Star Park in China. "I'm a great believer in plagiarizing. I think all gardeners are. There's no reason why one shouldn't plagiarize. Why not take someone else's good idea and adapted to one's site. This garden really represents that; it's just Ideas that were gleaned from other sources." #OTD    Today is the birthday of Andy Warhol who was born on this day in 1928   Warhol painted a series called Flowers that debuted in 1964.   This series of paintings was unique. Warhol found the original photo for it in a magazine called Modern Photography. All the canvas Warhol used for the Flowers series was square. He only painted on 24 and 48 inch canvases. In these paintings, Warhol applied his masterful use of color; making the flowers much more vibrant against their background.   Although Warhol's Flowers have been compared to Van Gogh's bouquets and Matisse's Cutouts, it seemed no one could agree what kind of blooms were featured in the Flowers. The New York Herald Tribune identified the blossoms as anemones. The Village Voice said they were nasturtiums. Other publications said they were pansies.   There was no way to really tell. The series of prints showed the same flowers over and over again in different color combinations and backgrounds.   Warhol once said,   "My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.“   Warhol's Flower series is considered a likely source for the phrase "flower power" which became an anthem for the non-violence movement. Whether or not that's true, Warhol's psychedelic flowers were totally in sync with the movement.   Warhols assistant once recalled,   “When Warhol... made flowers, it reflected the urban, dark, death side of that whole flower power movement... there is a lot of depth in there.”   Warhol's inclinations aligned with the 1960's flower children. He once wished aloud:   “I think everybody should like everybody.”   My favorite Andy Warhol quote is one that gardeners will identify with. He said,  "I always notice flowers.”       #OTD   On this day in 1954 that the botanist David Fairchild passed away. He was 85 years old.   In terms of accomplishments, Fairchild hit it out of the botanical park. He was single-handedly responsible for the introduction of more than 200,000 plants to the  United States; including pistachios, mangoes, dates, nectarines, soybeans, and flowering cherries.   In conducting his work, Fairchild traveled around the globe numerous times.    Without David Fairchild; the Washington Mall would not have the beautiful Japanese flowering cherries. When that first shipment of cherry trees arrived in the United States, it was infested with insects and diseases. It was a blessing in disguise. Japan was so embarrassed by the shipment, that they immediately shipped new specimens. And, Japan sent experts to the States to make sure that the trees were taken care of properly.   And, plants like kale seem to be a relatively new phenomenon in gardens across the country. But, it was actually David Fairchild, and not Trader Joe's, who brought kale to the United States. And, David Fairchild brought the avocado here as well.   Looking back over Fairchild's life, it's clear he had a few lucky breaks that helped change the trajectory of his life. For instance, on his first collecting expedition, he met a world traveler and wealthy benefactor named Barbara Latham who funded Many of his adventures. And, in 1905 he married Mary Ann Bell; his father-in-law was none other than Alexander Graham Bell.   Finally, the next time you’re in Florida, stop by the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables which is filled with many of the plants that were collected by Fairchild and it's named in his honor.       Unearthed Words We celebrate the birthday of Alfred Lord Tennyson who was born on this day in 1809.   Tennyson was the fourth of twelve children in his family and he became one of the most well loved Victorian poets.   Today, you can take a tour of Tennyson’s walled garden on the Isle of Wight. Both the home and the garden have been restored to their former glory and the property gets top ratings on TripAdvisor.      An 1895 newspaper shared this charming account of Tennyson's garden:   "Another orchard which I shall never forget is that which lives alongside Tennyson‘s Garden. It was only natural that one should recall the poets lines: (From In Memoriam:) "O sound to rout the brood of cares,       The sweep of scythe in morning dew,       The gust that round the garden flew,  And tumbled half the mellowing pears!"   (And, from Song of the Lotos-Eaters:) "Lo! sweeten'd with the summer light,  The full-juiced apple, waxing over-mellow,  Drops in a silent autumn night."   And, here's Tennyson’s most quoted sentiment is a favorite among gardeners:   “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.“     Today's book recommendation: Flora's Dictionary : The Victorian Language of Herbs and Flowers by Kathleen Gips Oh, to live in Victorian times; when the meaning of a flower had so many more possibilities than just, "I love you".   This book is a delight for the gardener who enjoys learning the difference between a red rose and a white one during this time in history. In addition to flowers, this book even shares the meanings of fruits and vegetables.   Many of the meanings are rooted in classical literature; in that regard, this book provides added insight across subjects.     Today's Garden Chore If you want to keep growing, keep sowing.   Now is the time to sow more seeds - to grow more leafy greens like lettuce and arugula and spinach; and more vegetables that mature quickly like radish, and dill, and turnip.   This time of year, I like to reseed kale as well. There’s nothing like eating young kale shoots grown in the fall.   If you’re having a hot fall, don’t forget that you can cover your crops with reemay to protect them from the sun and help keep them cool.   There are so many wonderful resources out with advice on extending the growing season. Check out anything by Nikkie Jabbour and you’ll find yourself in excellent company.     Something Sweet  Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart When I was researching Tennyson, I came across a story about a fan of his named Professor John Stewart Blackie.  Blackie was a Scottish scholar known for his wit and kindness, as well as his flamboyance.   In 1864, in one of his letters, Blackie described what it was like meeting Tennyson:   " The poet (Tennyson) came downstairs from a hot bath which he had just been taking, quite in an easy unaffected style ; a certain slow - heaviness of motion belongs essentially to his character, and contrasts strikingly with the alert quickness and sinewy energy of Kingsley : head Jovian, eye dark, pale face, black flowing locks, like a Spanish ship-captain or a captain of Italian brigands something not at all common and not the least English. We dined, talked, and smoked together, and got on admirably."   Long after, in his old age, Miss Stoddart tells us, the Professor spoke of this visit with a reference very unusual to him in allusion to his contemporaries, and a few flowers gathered in Tennyson's garden were carefully pressed and affixed to his copy of his "in Memoriam".     Thanks for listening to the daily gardener, and remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."

This week we chat with friend-of-the-show Josh Thia about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the rootin-est, tootin-est musicals this side of the mountain - Oklahoma!In the New York Herald Tribune, Howard Barnes wrote, "Songs, dances, and a story have been triumphantly blended. ... The Richard Rodgers score is one of his best, and that is saying plenty. Oscar Hammerstein 2nd has written a dramatically imaginative libretto and a string of catchy lyrics; Agnes de Mille has worked small miracles in devising original dances to fit the story and the tunes, while Rouben Mamoulian has directed an excellent company with great taste and craftsmanship."- FURTHER READING -Wiki - Musical, FIlmIMDb - 1955, 1979, 1999iTunesSpotifyLike us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Support us on Patreon!Email us: musicalstaughtmepodcast@gmail.comVisit our home on the web thatsnotcanonproductions.comOur theme song and interstitial music all by the one and only Benedict Braxton Smith. Find out more about him at www.benedictbraxtonsmith.com

In this 2015 throwback episode, now available via podcast, editor and author Harry Rosenfeld joins 'The Social Workers' as a guest. Mr. Rosenfeld has spent years as an editor at The New York Herald Tribune and the Washington Post. As the Metro Editor at the Post, he oversaw Woodward and Bernstein in the Pulitzer Prize-winning expose of Watergate. After leaving the Post, Mr. Rosenfeld began working with the Albany Times Union and Knickerbocker News. Although he retired in 1998, he continues to serve as a consultant to the Times Union and sits on its editorial board as Editor-at-Large. In 2013, Harry wrote From Kristallnacht to Watergate: Memoirs of a Newspaperman, which is a memoir of his childhood in 1930s Berlin under Nazi rule and his career path from the New York Herald Tribune to the Washington Post.

När konstnären Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd gick bort i våras så stod det Closed for holidays i tidningarnas dödsannonser stängt för semester. Reuterswärd hade onekligen tagit ner skylten för gott men det här lilla meddelandet anspelade också på ett av hans allra mest kända verk, en annons införd på sidan 10 i New York Herald Tribune i januari 1963. Det är ett minimalt konstverk, bara 5 gånger 45 milimeter, men gesten var desto större:  Reuterswärd trängde sig in mellan världsnyheterna bara för att meddela att han tänkte stänga butiken. Vilket han förstås inte gjorde.  Måns Hirschfeldt mans.hirschfeldt@sverigesradio.se

In this episode Matt Crawford speaks to journalist and author Luke Hunt about his book Punji Trap- Pham Xaun An: The Spy Who Didn't Love Us. This book tells the story of the Vietnam War from a point of view most people have not experienced before. A true story of intrigue about Pham Xuan An who was a communist agent undercover as a celebrated war correspondent for Time, Rueters and The New York Herald Tribune. Propaganda at its most effective Pham Xuan An fed the western media with the stories the communist machine wanted. A highly effective  spy that influenced the war effort in incalculable ways. A riveting book that you should read. 

Americans love to trash their politicians as corrupt and self-interested, but they don’t agree on a solution. How can America attract good leaders to the thousands of elective offices in the land? In Politicians: The Worst Kind of People to Run the Government, Except for All the Others, Bruce Chapman lays out a bold plan for the changes we need to make in our public life if we are serious about enable worthy leaders to emerge to and to succeed. Drawing on history as well as his own extensive experience in politics and public policy, Chapman challenges the conventional wisdom about politicians, arguing that their chief rivals – the media, bureaucrats, college professors, and even political “reform” groups – are often sources of further political demoralization rather than renewal.Bruce K. Chapman worked on national and local campaigns throughout his life, started a magazine (Advance: A Journal of Political Thought), was an editorial writer for The New York Herald-Tribune, co-authored (with George Gilder)The Party That Lost its Head, and wrote The Wrong Man in Uniform, an early argument for an all-volunteer military. He served on the Seattle City Council in the 1970s, was elected Secretary of State of Washington twice, was chosen Director of the U.S. Census Bureau under President Reagan, and then served as a Deputy Assistant to the President in the White House. In the late 1980s he served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Organizations in Vienna. In 1991, he founded Discovery Institute, a public policy think tank that supports research on science, culture, economics, technology, transportation, national defense, and civic leadership. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Roma Torre, a recipient of an Emmy® and more than 30 other awards, is celebrating her 25th anniversary at NY1, New York’s popular cable news channel, where she is an anchor and theater critic. Torre began her television career at CBS’ flagship station, New York’s Channel 2, becoming a news writer and producer. Then, with Cablevision’s formation of the country's first 24-hour local news station, News12 Long Island, Torre was among the first reporters hired. At the station, she reported, anchored and hosted a weekly news program. Torre was also its film and theater critic and her reviews were published in the television magazine, Total TV. After five years at News12, Torre returned to New York City in 1992 to join NY1, where she now anchors its "News All Day" and is its theater critic. She previously anchored the station’s award-winning "Inside City Hall," a hard-hitting political and public affairs program described by one critic as "the ‘60 Minutes’ of local television." She followed in the tradition of her mother, the late Marie Torre. A well-known syndicated columnist and amusements editor for The New York Herald Tribune, Marie was involved in a celebrated freedom of the press case. She was the first reporter to gain national attention for going to jail for refusing to identify a news source in a dispute involving CBS and Judy Garland. (It was a 10-day sentence.) But growing up, Roma Torre wanted to be an actress. Born in New York and raised in Pittsburgh, she later graduated from Tufts University. While in Boston, Torre started a theater company with fellow student Ed Lopez. The theater lasted three years but the partnership with Lopez thrived. They married in 1991 and now have two children, Alejandro and Alegra. Torre’s road to Broadway took a detour. After performing in numerous soaps and off-Broadway productions, she traded in the stage lights for the glare of television news cameras. Her theater years are still being put to good use in her role as NY1's theater critic. She regularly contributes to its weekly theater show, "NY1 On Stage." In addition, Torre continues to cover news stories and various special events, ranging from NY1's election night coverage to major parades. She has more than 30 broadcasting awards, including an Emmy for reporting and anchoring coverage of the Avianca plane crash disaster in 1991. Torre and "News All Evening" anchor Lewis Dodley were honored in 1993 by New York Magazine's "Best Of" edition as the best news anchors in New York. Torre was the recipient of the Newswomen’s Club of New York's 2003 Peggy Award for Broadcasting for her review of the Broadway show, Big River. She has co-produced a documentary entitled, “Shout Gladi Gladi” - a story of hope and survival - narrated by Meryl Streep. It profiles a Scottish woman who has dedicated countless hours and her own money to improving the lives of African women and children living in extreme poverty. A colon cancer survivor, Torre is a staunch advocate of early screening and has spoken extensively about the need to raise awareness and the importance of cancer prevention. She is a proud board member of the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA). Founded in 1889, NAWA is the country’s oldest organization that promotes and showcases women in the art world.

Marvin Scott’s new book, As I Saw It: A Reporter’s Intrepid Journey (Beaufort Books, 2017) tells 26 stories of memorable people and events that the veteran TV journalist gathered during a career spanning more than 50 years. Scott estimates that he’s told more than 15,000 stories and interviewed 30,000 people for print, radio and television. He describes himself as a journalist who has “tried to stick to old-fashioned reporting, just the facts, without adding my personal views.” He also writes that “at the heart of every story, big and small, is a person. It is people who make the news.” The winner of 11 Emmy Awards, Scott is currently the senior correspondent at New York’s WPIX-TV. He has written for the New York Herald Tribune as well as Parade Magazine and has worked as a radio reporter for the Mutual Broadcasting System and at such television outfits as CNN, WNEW, and WABC. In this New Books Network interview, Marvin Scott recounts some of the stories he covered including one he did on Charlie Walsh, the bank thief who became a New York celebrity. He also describes how he managed to interview Abraham Zapruder and how many years later, he synced Zapruder’s recorded words to the 26-second amateur film he had shot of the Kennedy assassination in Dallas. Scott champions traditional, shoe-leather reporting and laments the influence of social media outlets that publish first and check the facts later. Bruce Wark is a freelance journalist and retired journalism professor based in the Sackville, New Brunswick. Laura Landon is a librarian at Mount Allison University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marvin Scott’s new book, As I Saw It: A Reporter’s Intrepid Journey (Beaufort Books, 2017) tells 26 stories of memorable people and events that the veteran TV journalist gathered during a career spanning more than 50 years. Scott estimates that he’s told more than 15,000 stories and interviewed 30,000 people for print, radio and television. He describes himself as a journalist who has “tried to stick to old-fashioned reporting, just the facts, without adding my personal views.” He also writes that “at the heart of every story, big and small, is a person. It is people who make the news.” The winner of 11 Emmy Awards, Scott is currently the senior correspondent at New York’s WPIX-TV. He has written for the New York Herald Tribune as well as Parade Magazine and has worked as a radio reporter for the Mutual Broadcasting System and at such television outfits as CNN, WNEW, and WABC. In this New Books Network interview, Marvin Scott recounts some of the stories he covered including one he did on Charlie Walsh, the bank thief who became a New York celebrity. He also describes how he managed to interview Abraham Zapruder and how many years later, he synced Zapruder’s recorded words to the 26-second amateur film he had shot of the Kennedy assassination in Dallas. Scott champions traditional, shoe-leather reporting and laments the influence of social media outlets that publish first and check the facts later. Bruce Wark is a freelance journalist and retired journalism professor based in the Sackville, New Brunswick. Laura Landon is a librarian at Mount Allison University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marvin Scott’s new book, As I Saw It: A Reporter’s Intrepid Journey (Beaufort Books, 2017) tells 26 stories of memorable people and events that the veteran TV journalist gathered during a career spanning more than 50 years. Scott estimates that he’s told more than 15,000 stories and interviewed 30,000 people for print, radio and television. He describes himself as a journalist who has “tried to stick to old-fashioned reporting, just the facts, without adding my personal views.” He also writes that “at the heart of every story, big and small, is a person. It is people who make the news.” The winner of 11 Emmy Awards, Scott is currently the senior correspondent at New York’s WPIX-TV. He has written for the New York Herald Tribune as well as Parade Magazine and has worked as a radio reporter for the Mutual Broadcasting System and at such television outfits as CNN, WNEW, and WABC. In this New Books Network interview, Marvin Scott recounts some of the stories he covered including one he did on Charlie Walsh, the bank thief who became a New York celebrity. He also describes how he managed to interview Abraham Zapruder and how many years later, he synced Zapruder’s recorded words to the 26-second amateur film he had shot of the Kennedy assassination in Dallas. Scott champions traditional, shoe-leather reporting and laments the influence of social media outlets that publish first and check the facts later. Bruce Wark is a freelance journalist and retired journalism professor based in the Sackville, New Brunswick. Laura Landon is a librarian at Mount Allison University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marvin Scott’s new book, As I Saw It: A Reporter’s Intrepid Journey (Beaufort Books, 2017) tells 26 stories of memorable people and events that the veteran TV journalist gathered during a career spanning more than 50 years. Scott estimates that he’s told more than 15,000 stories and interviewed 30,000 people for print, radio and television. He describes himself as a journalist who has “tried to stick to old-fashioned reporting, just the facts, without adding my personal views.” He also writes that “at the heart of every story, big and small, is a person. It is people who make the news.” The winner of 11 Emmy Awards, Scott is currently the senior correspondent at New York’s WPIX-TV. He has written for the New York Herald Tribune as well as Parade Magazine and has worked as a radio reporter for the Mutual Broadcasting System and at such television outfits as CNN, WNEW, and WABC. In this New Books Network interview, Marvin Scott recounts some of the stories he covered including one he did on Charlie Walsh, the bank thief who became a New York celebrity. He also describes how he managed to interview Abraham Zapruder and how many years later, he synced Zapruder’s recorded words to the 26-second amateur film he had shot of the Kennedy assassination in Dallas. Scott champions traditional, shoe-leather reporting and laments the influence of social media outlets that publish first and check the facts later. Bruce Wark is a freelance journalist and retired journalism professor based in the Sackville, New Brunswick. Laura Landon is a librarian at Mount Allison University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marvin Scott’s new book, As I Saw It: A Reporter’s Intrepid Journey (Beaufort Books, 2017) tells 26 stories of memorable people and events that the veteran TV journalist gathered during a career spanning more than 50 years. Scott estimates that he’s told more than 15,000 stories and interviewed 30,000 people for print, radio and television. He describes himself as a journalist who has “tried to stick to old-fashioned reporting, just the facts, without adding my personal views.” He also writes that “at the heart of every story, big and small, is a person. It is people who make the news.” The winner of 11 Emmy Awards, Scott is currently the senior correspondent at New York’s WPIX-TV. He has written for the New York Herald Tribune as well as Parade Magazine and has worked as a radio reporter for the Mutual Broadcasting System and at such television outfits as CNN, WNEW, and WABC. In this New Books Network interview, Marvin Scott recounts some of the stories he covered including one he did on Charlie Walsh, the bank thief who became a New York celebrity. He also describes how he managed to interview Abraham Zapruder and how many years later, he synced Zapruder’s recorded words to the 26-second amateur film he had shot of the Kennedy assassination in Dallas. Scott champions traditional, shoe-leather reporting and laments the influence of social media outlets that publish first and check the facts later. Bruce Wark is a freelance journalist and retired journalism professor based in the Sackville, New Brunswick. Laura Landon is a librarian at Mount Allison University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

När konstnären Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd gick bort så stod det Closed for holidays i tidningarnas dödsannonser stängt för semester. Måns Hirschfelt berättar bakgrundshistorien. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. Det här lilla meddelandet anspelade också på ett av hans allra mest kända verk, en annons införd på sidan 10 i New York Herald Tribune i januari 1963.Det är ett minimalt konstverk, bara 5 gånger 45 millimeter, men gesten var desto större:Reuterswärd trängde sig in mellan världsnyheterna bara för att meddela att han tänkte stänga butiken. Vilket han förstås inte gjorde.

När konstnären Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd gick bort i våras så stod det Closed for holidays i tidningarnas dödsannonser stängt för semester. Reuterswärd hade onekligen tagit ner skylten för gott men det här lilla meddelandet anspelade också på ett av hans allra mest kända verk, en annons införd på sidan 10 i New York Herald Tribune i januari 1963. Det är ett minimalt konstverk, bara 5 gånger 45 milimeter, men gesten var desto större: Reuterswärd trängde sig in mellan världsnyheterna bara för att meddela att han tänkte stänga butiken. Vilket han förstås inte gjorde. Måns Hirschfeldt

A journalism professor at the University of Hawai'i for 29 years before retiring in July 2008, Beverly Deepe Keever is the author of Death Zones and Darling Spies: Seven Years of Vietnam War Reporting. She also researched and wrote News Zero: The New York Times and The Bomb (Common Courage Press, 2004). Excerpts from and adaptations of this book have been published in two award-winning cover articles in Honolulu's alternative weekly. She is a co-editor of the well reviewed U.S. News Coverage of Racial Minorities: A Sourcebook, 1934-1996 (Greenwood Press, 1997), for which she conceptualized with others the prospectus of the volume; made arrangements with the publisher; served, in effect, as the managing editor coordinating the writing of 11 other scholars; contributed two chapters and co-authored two others.! Since her retirement, she has written her memoirs of covering the Vietnam War for seven years successively for Newsweek, the New York Herald Tribune, the Christian Science Monitor and the London Daily Express and Sunday Express. She has received the University of Hawai’i Regents Medal for Excellence in Teaching, numerous freedom-of-information awards and awards from the alumni associations of two of her alma maters, the University of Nebraska College of Journalism and Mass Communications and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She has written numerous other articles for academic, professional and commercial publications while at the University of Hawai`i and as a correspondent in Vietnam for Newsweek, the New York Herald Tribune, the Christian Science Monitor and the London Daily and Sunday Express.

In 1898, 19-year-old W. Reginald Bray made a thorough study of British postal regulations, which laid out rules for mailing everything from bees to elephants and promised that "all letters must be delivered as addressed." He resolved to give the service "a severe test without infringing its regulations." In this episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll review the antics that followed, in which Bray sent turnips, bicycle pumps, shoes, and even himself through the British post. We'll also sympathize with Lucius Chittenden, a U.S. Treasury official who had to sign 12,500 bonds in one harried weekend in 1862, and puzzle over the worrying train journey of a Wall Street banker. Our segment on W.R. Bray, the Edwardian postal experimentalist, is based chiefly on John Tingey's 2010 book The Englishman Who Posted Himself and Other Curious Objects. Tingey maintains a website with an extensive catalog of the curios that Bray sent through the post. Also David Leafe, "The Man Who Posted Himself," Daily Mail, March 19, 2012. In an article in the Royal Magazine in 1904, Bray noted the usefulness of the Post Office's offer to conduct a person "to any address on payment of the mileage charge": What mothers know that, if they like, they can send their little ones to school as letters? Possibly, as soon as the 'mother-readers' see this, the Post Offices will be crowded with toddling infants, both in and out of 'prams,' all waiting to be taken to schools, or out for a day in the country. 'But I should not like my child to be carried with postage stamps, and arrive at the school black with postmarks!' That is what I expect some mothers will say. Oh, don't be alarmed, nothing like this will happen! All that you need to do is to take the child to the Post Office across the road, pay a small fee, and a messenger boy will escort the little one to the very door of the school. However Post Office officials do not appear anxious to gain fame as nurse providers to infants. Miscellaneous postal mischief on Futility Closet: Torturing the Post Office Post Haste Riddling Letters Sources for our segment on L.E. Chittenden, the iron-wristed Register of the Treasury under Lincoln: Lucius Eugene Chittenden, Recollections of President Lincoln and His Administration, 1891. Joseph F. Tuttle, "Abraham Lincoln, 'The Perfect Ruler of Men,'" Historical Register of the Colorado Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Nov. 1, 1906. William Juengst, "In Ruffles and Starch Cuffs: The American Jews' Part in Our International Relations," The American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger, Sept. 30, 1921. Arthur Laurents wrote a piece for the New York Herald Tribune in 1957 that discusses the development of West Side Story. You can listen using the player above, or subscribe on iTunes or via the RSS feed at http://feedpress.me/futilitycloset. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!

Interview with Dr. Beverly Keever. A journalism professor at the University of Hawai'i for 29 years before retiring in July 2008, Beverly Deepe Keever is the author of Death Zones and Darling Spies: Seven Years of Vietnam War Reporting. She also researched and wrote News Zero: The New York Times and The Bomb (Common Courage Press, 2004). Excerpts from and adaptations of this book have been published in two award-winning cover articles in Honolulu's alternative weekly. She is a co-editor of the well reviewed U.S. News Coverage of Racial Minorities: A Sourcebook, 1934-1996 (Greenwood Press, 1997), for which she conceptualized with others the prospectus of the volume; made arrangements with the publisher; served, in effect, as the managing editor coordinating the writing of 11 other scholars; contributed two chapters and co-authored two others. Since her retirement, she has written her memoirs of covering the Vietnam War for seven years successively for Newsweek, the New York Herald Tribune, the Christian Science Monitor and the London Daily Express and Sunday Express. She has received the University of Hawai’i Regents Medal for Excellence in Teaching, numerous freedom-of-information awards and awards from the alumni associations of two of her alma maters, the University of Nebraska College of Journalism and Mass Communications and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She has written numerous other articles for academic, professional and commercial publications while at the University of Hawai`i and as a correspondent in Vietnam for Newsweek, the New York Herald Tribune, the Christian Science Monitor and the London Daily and Sunday Express.