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J Wentworth Bean
Airdate: Thursday - April 5, 1962

WOR Show
Original Airing

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(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

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 - - ]   
  J Wentworth Bean,, Won't chicken out, Jack Parr Image, How's Your Image?, poem      
  

WOR ID

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. . .

Brass Figlagee Award

"I will award the Brass Figlagee. . ."

• Who played the original Charlie Chan?

Commercials (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
• 32:15	Mandarin House

Music (All times approximate)

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

Callers

Time	Caller	Notes
	•

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

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

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

None

Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used

Time	Category	Date	Title	Comments
•	General Topics		Poetry

Links to Further Information:

• The Fall of J.W. Beane

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

This Show

		Date	Title
		April 5, 1962	J Wentworth Bean	Original Airing

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"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