Last Summary Update: 03-06-2024 Orwellian Opposites Airdate: Tuesday - March 5, 1963 WOR Show Original Airing (NOTE ABOUT TIME REFERENCES: Since there are many different copies of shows out there from different sources, all time references are from the beginning of one single recorded copy, since various copies, depending on when the recordee started recording, had news at the beginning or shortened themes. The times would vary from copy to copy.) First Spoken Line After Theme Ends There we go, sneak it in now. . . Show Description [ Courtesy: Ryan Priest - 03-08-2017 ] Three men have recently announced they are not running for the presidency, even though nobody asked them to. (Ironically, two them -- Goldwater and Rockefeller -- did indeed run for president in 1964.) Shep takes that as a queue to announce he will not be running. Due to the newspaper strike, Shep is reading anything he can get ahold of. He found a sports magazine article listing great underdogs...including Wilt Chamberlain and Ernie Banks. He noticed the use of "Orwellian" language in modern society. Love is hate, etc. WOR ID Time Station ID (All times approximate) 09:20 Now while wer're involved in problems, we have here WOR AM and FM in New York, speaking of problems. . . Commercials (All times approximate) Time Sponsor Notes No Commercials or Commercials Cut Music (All times approximate) Time Music Title Notes 08:55 Beethoven's 5th Symphony