Re: reminiscing about Boston radio

["Jim Hall" <aerie@shore.net>]

Didn't George Carlin get fired from WEZE for cutting the Cardinal short one
day? It seems the Cardinal's show was running late, and George switched to
music before the Cardinal was finished.

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> From: Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com>
> To: Dan Strassberg <dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net>
> Cc: boston-radio-interest@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu
> Subject: Re: reminiscing about Boston radio
> Date: Sunday, May 04, 1997 12:42 PM
> 
> Dan wrote:
> >Norm Tulin was certainly on WORL at that time--but not at night. WORL
was a
> >daytimer and broadcast "hours of restful silence" (well, not if you had
a
> >decent radio; you could pick up WIBX and/or WPEN pretty well) from
sunset
> >until 6:00 the following morning. By the time I got here in '56, the
WORL
> >lineup included Gregg Finn in AM drive (with 15 minutes off for Cardinal
> >Cushing and the Rosary from 6:15 to 6:30), Norm Tulin, Stan Richards,
and
> >one other personality I can't recall in the PM drive. Whether Richards
did
> 
> True, but don't forget, when we changed the clocks, all the daytimers
were
> on in the early evening and the listing I have shows that Norm Tulin did
a
> short programme until sign-off.  Is that erroneous?  (I checked 4
newspaper
> listings, since we don't put much faith in the Boston Globe...<g>) 
> 
> As for the Rosary, it wasthe subject of a standing joke in Boston when I
was
> a kid-- Cardinal Cushing, a wonderful person and a friend to the Jews,
had a
> voice like nails on a blackboard-- hoarse, nasal, very unpleasant to
listen
> to.  But people adored him.  When he said the rosary, which for the
> non-Catholics, was in a call-and-respond style (that is, he said one
part,
> and then the priests and brothers assisting him would respond), he would
> perpetually step on their response in his hurry to go on to his next
line.
> I could do a flawless imitatio of him, but I never did it around my
Catholic
> friends!!!  Anyway, the Rosary was very much listened to back in those
days,
> and while the rest of the day's programming was mainly non-religious,
> hearing Cardinal Cushing was a highpoint for many of my neighbours... 

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