[Magdalen] What's My Line? On Facebook and YouTube

[Jim Guthrie]

From: Charles Wohlers

>What I do recall, from living in NJ in the early 60's, was that, if you went in 
>to NYC and had your purchase shipped home, there was no local NY State sales 
>tax. That's what I was referring to. That loophole was eventually closed.

early 60s would have been NY City Sales Tax. The State Sales tax came later.

>I don't remember anything of what was on WOR, even though my mother had it on 
>most all day.

As an impressionable blind 10 year old, the schedule was indelibly stored in my 
memory:

With 15  minutes of News on the hour 5 AM- 6PM . . .
6-8 am -- Rambling with Gambling
8:15-9:00 Breakfast with Dorothy and Dick
9:15-10:00 - Second Breakfast with John B Gambling, later Galen Drake
10:15-11  -- Martha Deane (Interviews)
11:15-12:00 The McCanns at home -- health and fitness ND RECIPES recipes
12:15-1 Ed and Pegeen Fitzgerald
1:15-2 "Living Can be Fun" Vitamins and Quack Remedies with Carleton Fredericks
2:15-3:00 Arlene Francis
3:15-4 Celeste Holme
4-6 Radio New York
6:15 - 7:45 various News programs
6:45-7 PM Stan Lomax on Sports
7:7:15 -- Top of the News with Fulton Lewis Jr. (Commentary)
7:15-7:30 Business News and News (7:2)
7:30 -- 7:35 \ Gabriel Heatte Commentary
7:35-7:45 Cedric  Foster
7:45-8 PM Walter Kiernan commentary (mostly local NYC and suburbs)
8-8:05 PM -- WOR News
8:05-8:30 "The World Today" - News roundup from Mutual
8:30-8:35  Bill Stern Sports
8:35-11 PM "Music from Studio X" With John A Gambling (son of the morning's John 
B Gambling)
11:15-12 - Jean Shepherd
12:00-5:00 AM Long John Nobel
5:15-6 AM Farm and Agriculture news (!) In NYC, yet; in the same time slot both 
WABC and WRCA offered agriculture programs as well. Back in the day, all radio 
stations were obligated to provide some kind of Agriculture programs each day. 
At age 10 I learned that tuning in could yield Pork Belly prices in many U.S. 
farm-Center cities <g>).

The 9-10 AM is a bit fuzzy, a I listened to the Breakfast Club out of Chicago on 
WABC.

I spent a lot of time on weekends listening to Monitor in NBC, eagerly awaiting 
the Bob and Ray segments. But WOR had Shep on around noontime for two hours, and 
then an hour of Broadway Show music, which I enjoyed as well.

Shep also did 9 PM - 1 AM on Sunday nights. That means he was telling stories 
nearly 10 hours a week, while also writing for such diverse publications as Mad 
Magazine and Playboy. Many of you will know him from the film version of "A 
Christmas Story" -- the most watched holiday fare in the U.S. for the last 20 
years or so. "You'll Shoot Your Eye Out."

I remember a Nurse -- certainly portrayed well later as Nurse Ratchett when I 
was in the hospital who threatened to confiscate my little Zenith Transistor 
Radio if she caught me listening to the radio after 8 PM. My grandfather brought 
me a tiny in-the-ear headphone which solved her problem because I rested my head 
on that side when she made her rounds.

Of course in the various times I was in the hospital, I also listened to talking 
books that my grandfather brought -- so I scandalized the children's ward 
hospital personnel  by listening to Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and grampa's 
other favorite.

Cheers,
Jim

Cheers,
Jim

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: Jim Guthrie
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2015 8:54 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] What's My Line? On Facebook and YouTube

From: Charles Wohlers

>And, especially if the customer was from New Jersey - no sales tax!!!

No sales tax at all early in their run, but NYC imposed one at some point.
The
State Sales tax came somewhat later.

There were stories that Kilgallen was about to reveal something regarding
Ruby,
but it would seem doubtful. Even other Kennedy Conspiracy Fans didn’t find
anything.

I started listening to "Breakfast with Dorothy and Dick" while in Columbia
Presbyterian Hospital for my  first eye surgeries in 1858. I continued to
listen
until I had to go back to school again after I had regained my eyesight a
year
later. I learned a lot about New York City listening to them.

WOR had another husband/wife chatter show -- Ed and Pegeen Fitzgerald, which
lasted another 15 years. It was also the subject of an exquisite send-up by
Tallulah Bankhead and Fred Allen. They captured the basics of both D&D and
Ed
and Pegeen in a hilarious way.

Cheers,
Jim