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

[Charles Wohlers]

Oh, yes, "Rambling with Gambling". That was always on when I was having 
breakfast and getting ready to go off to High School.

And, who could forget Jean Shepherd? I haven't, but did forget that he was 
on WOR.

Most of the other names I do recognize, but don't remember listening to 
them.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: Jim Guthrie
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 10:35 AM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] What's My Line? On Facebook and YouTube

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