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Last Summary Update: 10-12-2024

Short Army Pilot Tryout
Airdate: Wednesday - February 23, 1972

WOR Show
Original Airing

audio

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

May I please as part of our vast public service programmin

Show Description

A salute to "Shorty" Wagner which leads into an Army Story about someone who wanted to be a pilot but was rejected for being too short. He takes a correspondence course on how to get tall and 'grows' to a half inch over the minimum gets qualified, and when he reports a few weeks later he has shrunk to 1 inch under the minimum height!

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Comments

• Commercials seem to have been added. Perhaps this is a rerun and the commercials are replacing the originals? There is also a portion of an Ornithopter commercial.

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
• 14:12	Speaking of drains, this is WOR New Y0rk

Commercials (Up to date) (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
• 14:17	Mandarin House
• 15:36	Toyota
• 16:38	Book Find Club
• 17:45	Ornithopter (Flying Bird)

Music (Up to date) (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
• 01:10	In The Good Old Summertime (2)

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
•	None Mentioned

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November 17, 1971
Tampa Bay Times

Record: 7267 / ID: 19720223W7267

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

	Date	Title
	February 23, 1972 Recno: 7267	Short Army Pilot Tryout	Original Airing

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Database Record Status

Database ID #:	19720223W7267	Sponsors up to date:	Yes
Record Created:	01-08-2022	Sources up to date:	Yes
Last Update:	10-12-2024	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

Kevin Zahm

Notes

Dating Notes

Notes

Source: Jim Clavin

Commercials seem to have been added. Perhaps this is a rerun and the commercials are replacing the originals? There is also a portion of an Ornithopter commercial.

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Notes

Source: Jim Clavin
It appears this may be a rerun of an ealier show as the commercials from 14:15 to 18:51 appear to have been inserted. The original airing may have been sometime in Nov/Dec 1971 as Shep reads on article from 11-17-71. He usually reads articles within a month of their publication.
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	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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Gary Hines

Running Time: 44:33

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Inventory Name: 1972 02 23_W7267_097 Army Pilot Tryout.mp3
Source filename: 72-02-23 Army Pilot Tryout.mp3
Source description: 2-23-72 RR Short Army Pilot Tryout
Station: WOR

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Kevin Zahm

Running Time: 38:01

Recordee:
208 - Kevin Zahm

Inventory Name: 1972 02 23_W7267_208-C8 Short Army Pilot Tryout.mp3
Source filename: 03 Dad's tape C both sides.mp3
Station: WGBH
Syndicated Show

"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