Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This mild Shavian spoof (recorded 21 years ago when Shaw was only 71) was broadcast in Manhattan over WNEW's A Treasury of the Spoken Word (Wed. 9 p.m.). Sponsored by the New York Public Library and produced by WNEW's Jack Grogan, who calls it a "literary disk-jockey show," the Spoken Word has brought its listeners the voices of such diverse personalities as Gandhi, Coolidge, Teddy Roosevelt, Cardinal Spellman, Bing Crosby (who gave a reading of The Star-Spangled Banner...
When Franklin Roosevelt died, the Patroon Broadcasting Co. in Albany, N.Y. asked the Federal Communications Commission if it might use the call letters WFDR. The FCC, deciding that the President's initials should not be identified with a commercial venture, said no. But last week in Manhattan, a nonprofit, FM station called WFDR went...
Even as hospitals go, Manhattan's famed Memorial Hospital is not a light-hearted place. Its corridors never echo with the happy sounds of a maternity ward. No one is there because of minor ailments or for a good rest. Most of the patients know that their chances of recovery, though somewhat better every year, are poor indeed. Visitors passing through the lobby often look stunned by grief. Memorial is a tragic place because its patients are victims of cancer...
...mining for gold in Alaska, washed the body out of its deep-freeze burial place; the parts that were found, still frozen, had changed little through the centuries. As the skin and flesh began to thaw, workmen embalmed them with formaldehyde, glycerin and alum. They were flown to Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History and quickly refrozen...
...Window. Bobby Driscoll in a hair-raising chase through Manhattan slums (TIME...