Word: stamberg
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...time for Gimme Shelter!-"America's favorite tax-planning fun game." Today's big contestant: Susan Stamberg. She beats the clock and correctly identifies Federal Tax Form G, earning a chance at an Individual Retirement Account. Applause and organ music erupt in the radio studio. But on Round 2 she draws a blank on Form 2440, losing a chance to "become a limited partner in a solar-powered cattle ranch on a uranium field." Susan has to settle for an electric saucepan. "Until tomorrow," says a smarmy announcer as applause and music swell, "Remember: Give us shelter...
...radio's answer to television's Wheel of Fortune or $20,000 Pyramid. And no, Susan Stamberg is not out to make a deal, or even to see if the price is right. She is co-host of All Things Considered, surely the most literate, trenchant and entertaining news program on radio. Gimme Shelter! was typical of the show: an imaginative way of commenting on the current scene, in this case, federal retirement tax policy...
Once rather unpolished compared with commercial radio, All Things Considered is now as smooth as a game show, with catchy electronic music between segments and inventive sound effects. But what really holds the show together is the cohosts: Stamberg, 40, former manager of Washington's public station WAMU, who signed on as a tape editor at the program's inception in 1971; and Bob Edwards, 32, who arrived in 1974 after working as a writer and newsreader at WTOP, Washington's all-news commercial station. Stamberg is the key to the program's ingratiating charm...
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