Randy Twizzle

I didn't realize how popular Smith was in the mid-60s until I saw these TV listings from March and October of 1965. I wonder if any recordings of these shows still exist.

My father was a dedicated WNEW listener and fan of Willy B's. He always had the station on in his car and that's where I mostly heard Williams. He had a great voice, but didn't really say much that interested me. He seemed to always be claiming deep and lasting friendship with Steve and Edie, Buddy Hackett etc. I know he was also supposedly a great pal of Sinatra and may have been the first to name him "The Chairman of the Board." When I was in high school I remember reading a passage in the "Happy Hooker" where Xaviera Hollander describes some kinky sex with a famous DJ she called something like "Tommy B Thompson". I almost told my old man about it...

William B Williams? (a DJ on WNEW AM)

Moe Green?

You can start your own collection at http://www.catholicshopper.com/products/in...rt_statues.html

Jesus sports figurines.

Coming in the Hudson?

Rodeo Clown!

there's an online interview with ratliff where he's asked how he got his first job at the Times. Steven: How did you get a full-time job writing about music for the NYT? Ben: I took a cultural criticism class with Gary Giddins while I was at Columbia--he taught for a few semesters in the General Studies school there--and it was one of the best things I ever did. About five years later I was unhappily working in book publishing, and as a sideline I filled in for Gary at the Voice when he went on sabbatical, writing articles about jazz and all those weekly choices and so forth. Around that time Peter Watrous and Jon Pareles started looking around for a stringer to join the Times, and there I was, ready to quit my day job at a moment's notice. http://www.rockcritics.com/interview/benratliff.html

"Have Gun Will Travel was an unusual series as it was one of the very few to originate on television before becoming a radio program. Many of the radio episodes were adaptations of television scripts." http://www.thrillingdetective.com/paladin.html

I corrected the bad link

Here's an opinion piece opinion from the Columbia Spectator about the future of WKCR The kid sounds a tad pissed off about Schaap and company. http://www.columbiaspectator.com/vnews/dis...52?in_archive=1

Jerome Rodale a health fanatic and publisher died on the Dick Cavett show in 1971: In a New York Times Magazine interview, this 72-year-old longevity guru announced, "I'm going to live to be 100, unless I'm run down by a sugar-crazed taxi driver." A guest on the Dick Cavett Show the next day, while Cavett was discussing politics with journalist Pete Hamill, Rodale's head dropped to his chest and he was heard to let out what sounded like a snore. "Are we boring you, Mr. Rodale?" asked Cavett. There was no response -- Rodale was dead. The show was never broadcast." http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/onstage.htm

According to the Washington Post the news about Carson sending jokes to Letterman was leaked by former Tonight Show producer Peter Lassally "Lassally revealed the secret about the jokes because he was trying to get inquiring TV columnists off the topic of Carson's health, not wanting to discuss it any more than necessary. The National Enquirer had splashed a story about Carson being rushed to the hospital on its front page, and the tabloid is usually accurate when dealing with stories of celebrity illness."

she was to me buddy. i loved her and miss her already. she kept america entertained for over 30 years with her late night monologues.

I was going to post it in politics but the phone rang, I got distracted and accidently posted it here.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Rose Mary Woods, the devoted secretary to President Nixon who said she inadvertently erased part of a crucial Watergate tape, has died. She was 87. Woods died Saturday night at a nursing home in Alliance, Roger Ruzek, owner of a funeral home in Sebring, said Sunday. He did not know the cause of death. The 18 1/2-minute gap in the tape of a June 20, 1972, conversation between Richard Nixon and chief of staff H.R. Haldeman was critical to the question of what Nixon knew about the break-in at Democratic headquarters in the Watergate complex three days earlier -- and when he knew it. Woods, who moved to northeastern Ohio after leaving the disgraced president's staff in 1976, never talked much about her years with the only American president to resign the office. But Nixon considered her a member of the family. He wrote in his memoirs that it was Woods he asked to inform first lady Pat Nixon and his daughters in 1974 that he had decided to resign on Aug. 9. ``My decision was irrevocable, and I asked her to suggest that we not talk about it anymore when I went over for dinner,'' Nixon said. When the time came for the family to privately say goodbye to Nixon before he climbed aboard the helicopter headed for Air Force One, Woods stood by with Mrs. Nixon, daughters Tricia and Julie, and their husbands. ``Rose ... is as close to us as family,'' Nixon said. Woods, the granddaughter of an Irish stowaway, was born in Sebring, 20 miles southwest of Youngstown, on Dec. 26, 1917, and was raised in a strict Roman Catholic family. She worked as a pottery company secretary in Sebring, then moved to Washington to become a typist on Capitol Hill, where she caught the eye of a rising Republican star, Congressman Richard Nixon of California. Nixon biographer Jonathan Aitken said the two hit it off immediately. Nixon, elected to the Senate in 1950, hired Woods as his secretary. ``She was intelligent, literate, clamlike in her discretion. Technically superb, she possessed the high-speed skills of shorthand and typing necessary to keep up with her boss's often frantic and always demanding schedule,'' Aitken wrote. ``One of the reasons why Woods struck up such a good rapport with her boss was that their characters were similar. Disciplined in her emotions yet passionate in her convictions, Woods was intuitive, protective and obsessive about privacy.'' Nixon defended his loyal employee when fingers pointed at Woods, who had spent weeks transcribing subpoenaed White House tapes. ``I know I did not do it,'' Nixon said. ``And I completely believe Rose when she says that she did not do it.'' She denied she caused the full 18 1/2-minute gap, testifying later that she inadvertently erased four or five minutes. The phone rang while she was transcribing the tape, she said. She accidentally hit the record button. A picture in which she demonstrated her action -- stretching one foot forward while reaching back to get the phone -- became one of the most famous images of the era. A panel of experts set up in the 1970s by federal judge John Sirica, who presided over the Watergate criminal trials, concluded that the erasures were done in at least five -- and perhaps as many as nine -- separate and contiguous segments. The panel never figured out what was erased. Who erased the rest of the tape? No one knows. Alexander Haig, who succeeded Haldeman as chief of staff, blamed the gap on ``sinister forces.'' Experts later examined the tape and found as many as nine deliberate erasures. They said Woods could not have done the whole thing. In an interview on the 25th anniversary of the 1972 break-in, Woods said she was rarely asked about Watergate anymore. ``Every once in a while I get notes and things from some of the people who were with us, but not much,'' she said. ``Everybody gets sort of separated.''

This picture was taken only a couple of weeks ago as Carson was entering a Malibu movie theatre.

From 1955

It's not offensive to me, but it sounds like a title for an off Broadway musical revue featuring cabaret singers sitting on stools, singing show tunes (the singers not the stools).

Here's some early Kerouac from the Lowell Sun in 1942. Ain't much bop prosody here

The trumpeter is Jack Sheldon. It's from the album Mink Jazz. Keep the figalagee but remember that Flick Lives.