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...sitting in your living room. Possibly in an easy chair. Maybe the lights are off and there's a cup of tea on the table by your side. The radio dial casts a dim glow. You're relaxed, listening to the immensely popular Chase and Sanborn Hour, starring Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. It's weird, listening to a ventriloquist and his dummy on the radio - how can you be sure Bergen's not cheating? - but the two of them are funny enough. A few minutes pass before some joker of a singer comes on. Time to switch the dial...
Those who stuck out the first half hour, and didn't run gibbering out the door, would have heard the play's second half take a more familiar dramatic path, as a survivor roams a blasted landscape, looking for any signs of human life. Following the broadcast's end, news got to Welles of angry calls to the CBS building, and exaggerated accounts of death and mayhem in the streets of America lingered for days. "If you had read the newspapers the next day, you would have thought I was Judas Iscariot and that my life was over," Welles would...
FALL OUT BOY attempts to break world record for most interviews ignored by listeners in 24-hour period...
...moments in my life.The most bitter of these is still as vivid a memory as my last trip to Berryline. I was outside alone one day during the summer after my sophomore year of high school, slowly disintegrating under a sweltering sun. Obviously the occasion, which sprawled over four hours, was ripe for serious introspection. My reflection that day was absorbed by one simple and painfully obvious realization: something was terribly, terribly wrong with this picture.Perhaps it was the heavy, unwieldy sign that concealed more than half of my body, or the fact that I was teetering on a curb...
...last hour of trading on Thursday, Oct. 23, 1929, stock prices suddenly plummeted. When the closing bell rang at 3 p.m. people were shaken. No one was sure what had just happened, but that evening provided enough time for fear and panic to set in. When the market opened again the next day, prices plunged with renewed violence. Stock transactions in those days were printed on ticker tape, which could only produce 285 words a minute. Thirteen million shares changed hands - the highest daily volume in the exchange's history at that point - and the tape didn't stop running...