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Last Summary Update: 03-02-2025

J Wentworth Bean
Airdate: Thursday - April 5, 1962

WOR Show
Original Airing

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First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

WOR is sending you as a special public service a man crying. . .

Show Description

Thursday will be nights we will not chicken out Jack Parr is Gone How's things out there in listener land Happiness is cheap You don't think this is the original Jean Shepherd do you? Shep reads: "The Fall of J. W. Beane" by Oliveer Herford

[ Courtesy: Gary Hines - 03-02-2025 ]   
  J Wentworth Bean,, Won't chicken out, Jack Parr Image, How's Your Image?, poem      
  

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Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
• 17:36	Speaking of idiod naives and small crawling things this is WOR AM and FM in New York, the Big Apple. . .

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"I will award the Brass Figlagee. . ."

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Commercials (Up to date) (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
• 32:15	Mandarin House

Music (Up to date) (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
• 00:25; 04:00; 09:06	Gettysburg March
• 10:47; 19:05; 28:29	Leyenda

Callers

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Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
• 09:35	Ed Scaterday

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Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used

Time	Category	Date	Title	Comments
•	General Topics		Poetry

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• The Fall of J.W. Beane

Record: 3243 / ID: 19620405W3243

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

	Date	Title
	April 5, 1962 Recno: 3243	J Wentworth Bean	Original Airing

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Database ID #:	19620405W3243	Sponsors up to date:	Yes
Record Created:	12-30-2007	Sources up to date:	Yes
Last Update:	03-02-2025	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

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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
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Gary Hines

Running Time: 43:25

Inventory Name: 1962 04 05_W3243_097_orig J Wentworth Bean.mp3
Source filename: 62-04-05_orig J Wentworth Bean.mp3
Source description: 4-5-62 J Wentworth Bean,, Won't chicken out, Jack Parr Image, How's Your Image?, poem
Station: WOR

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Gary Hines

Running Time: 45:18

Inventory Name: 1962 04 05_W3243_097_mod J Wentworth Bean.mp3
Source filename: 62-04-05_mod J Wentworth Bean.mp3
Station: WOR

"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