Terkel, Studs (1912—)
Studs Terkel was born Louis Terkel in New York City. When he was eight, his family moved to Chicago, a city of raw midwestern muscularity and deep jazz rhythms that sharpl...
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The radio personality and author Louis Terkel (born 1912) was best known for his oral histories of ordinary Americans. These anthologies of interviews show how people felt about key historical events ...
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"Next to Richard Nixon, the person whose life has been most dramatically affected by the tape recorder is Studs Terkel," according to Paul Gray in Time. For some two decades, Terkel has been the sympa...
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Today is Wednesday, May 16, the 136th day of 2007. There are 229 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On May 16, 1929, the first Academy Awards were presented during a banquet at the ...
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The full memo comes after the jump.
May 2, 2006
Colleagues,
Sometimes a great notion just needs someone to give it a push to make it a reality someone with the enthusiasm and energy of ...
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MUSEUM: BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTBy Danny Danziger Viking, 227 pages, $27.95
Danny Danziger’s Museum: Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art introduce...
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Roger Straus, the late founder and longtime leader of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, regarded his company as a family and liked to boast that "We publish authors, not books."And what authors: Isaac B...
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Terkel, Studs (1912—)
Louis Terkel
Studs Terkel
Today in history - May 16
