Word: wakeup
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Thank you for your pleasant piece about my "wakeup copy" for WNBC and for the unusually accurate quote [TIME, July...
...more than a quarter-century, U.S. radio stations have signed on & off the air with such tiresome technical details (station's frequency, place of business, etc.) as are required by federal law. This week, Manhattan's station WNBC decided to spice up the formalities with "wakeup copy" in the morning and "go-to-bed copy" at night. To do the job, enterprising General Manager Ted Cott commissioned such seasoned phrasemakers as Poet Louis Untermeyer, Novelist Fannie Hurst, Editor Norman (Saturday Review of Literature) Cousins and topflight Radio...