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Left- and Right-Handedness
Airdate: Tuesday - August 24, 1965

WOR Show
Original Airing

audio

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

They would stop their rediculous absurdity. . . (Main theme missing)

Show Description

WOR recognizes Americans and the Arts and a major art form - Whining Whining is different from complaining, slang words. H.L. Menkin and George Ade wrote about slang. Slang words describe situations and feelings for which there is no classical word. "A person who does not understand the slang of his time is a person who has lost contact with is time." Words drop out of our vocabulary as well as new ones being introduced. Left handers are nutty - gives examples in baseball, musicians, and opera. He read a piece in the NY Post while riding in the back of a cab, about a study which determined that left handers are neurotic. He read it to the driver who was not impressed - being a left hander himself. When Shep was was a left hander and when he was in the first grade his teacher, Miss Meno, forced him to write right handed. By the end of the first week, he was getting nose bleeds from having to learn to be right handed, and by the time he was in second grade he was a right hander. He continued to be an ambidextrous batter through life.

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Comments

• Makes references to the time he did commentary for a major U.S. opera company on the radio. After closing theme - Palisades Park commercial featuring Frankie Michaels singing the Little Miss America theme.

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
• 13:50	my mind is full of junk - which reminds me - this is WOR in New York

Commercials (Up to date) (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
• 13:54	Ballantine Beer	Mel Brooks, Dick Cavett

Music (Up to date) (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
• 00:54	First Film Music
• 27:25	Banjoreno

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
• 03:09	Bob Considine
• 02:56	Don MacClean

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

None

Rating

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Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used

Time	Category	Date	Title	Comments
• [ 28:40 ]	General Topics		School
• [ 28:40 ]	General Topics		Kid Stories
• [ 29:04 ]	People		Arauz, Pearl	Was left-handed
• [ 33:09 ]	Schools		Mc Kinley Elementary School
• [ 34:57 ]	People		Meno, Miss
• [ 39;00 ]	General Topics		Baseball

Record: 416 / ID: 19650824W0416

Airdate History ' - Original' date is earliest known broadcast)

	Date	Title
	August 24, 1965 Recno: 416	Left- and Right-Handedness	Original Airing

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Show	Replay Date
Mass Backwards	August 24, 2004

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Found in the following set(s)

Set Name	Show #	Media
1965 Set 5	151a	Cassette

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Database Record Status

Database ID #:	19650824W0416	Sponsors up to date:	Yes
Record Created:		Sources up to date:	Yes
Last Update:	None	Station ID up to date:	Yes
Show Redated From: See Dating Notes		Engineers up to date:	Yes
Music up to date:	Yes	Instruments up to date:	Yes
Description up to date:	Yes

Known Recordees

Rudy Wirsching

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Notes

Starts after theme - 40 minutes, minor drop outs

Replays

Mass Backwards

Replay Date

August 24, 2004

WBAI Golden Age of Radio

NONE

Yesterday USA

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Dustbin of History!

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Schmidco Sets - 1 found

Set Name	Show #	Media	File Name	Source
1965 Set 5	151a	Cassette	0 Running Time: 0

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4 Known copies from various Sources and Lists (Up to date)

	Recordee			¹ Shortened Theme: 55 seconds ² Audibly Dated: By recordee or other ³ Modified Theme: Theme added by Gary Hines ⁴ Syndicated Intro: Intro broadcast as part of Synd Shows
	This copy used for summary time references		Inventory File Name coding explained

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David Goldin

NEED A COPY OF THIS RECORDING Source description: The Jean Shepherd Show. August 24, 1965. WOR, New York. Participating sponsors. The opening theme has been deleted. A salute to an American art form: "whining." Are operatic tenors and left-handed people really nuts? Shep's first grade teach: Miss Meano. Jean Shepherd, Lester Smith (announcer), Dick Cavett (commercial spokesman: Ballantine Beer), Mel Brooks (commercial spokesman: Ballantine Beer). 40:51. Audio condition: Excellent. Incomplete.
Source ref number: 75496
Station: WOR

Gary Hines

NEED A COPY OF THIS RECORDING Source description: 8-24-65 151 Left and Right Handiness
Station: WOR

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Schmidco

Running Time: 41:05

Recordee:
501 - Rudy Wirsching

Inventory Name: 1965 08 24_W0416_022_600_1965_Set_5-151a Left and Right Handedness.mp3
Source set: 1965 Set 5
Source ref number: 151a
Station: WOR

Comments: Starts after theme - 40 minutes, minor drop outs

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Mass Backwards

Running Time: 42:50

Available on Internet

Inventory Name: 1965 08 24_W0416_500_M2004-08-24_Left_and_right_handedness.mp3
Station: WOR

Comments: Mass Backwards recording

"Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory?
Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty." - Jean Shepherd - 1975