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During the summer of 1947, Richard works for the Dress Joint Board in New York City’s Garment District. From his co-workers Richard learns more abo...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 16:11
After his mother's death, Richard throws himself into his academic work, four jobs, and campus political and social activities. He earns a reputati...
- Added: Feb 10, 2013
- Length: 29:10
Richard learns the value of a liberal education at the College of Wooster, where the study of science and religion are complementary. During Easter...
- Added: Feb 10, 2013
- Length: 25:00
Richard faces the uncertainty of college life and its requirements. And his heavy New York accent marks him as an outsider at the College of Wooster.
- Added: Feb 10, 2013
- Length: 19:47
Richard is caught between two philosophies of life: his father’s hard work ethic, which saw Richard’s responsibility to help meet the immediate exp...
- Added: Feb 10, 2013
- Length: 15:48
Too young for induction into the army, Richard works at Best & Co. and next with Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians in the shipping department. Upo...
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 30:34
Horace Hollister, the devoted choirmaster and youth leader, helps Richard break through the wall of established social cliques at Madison Avenue. R...
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 17:42
Richard's mother enrolls him in Good Will Sunday School, an East Side mission of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. At Good Will, Richard lear...
- Added: Feb 06, 2013
- Length: 21:38
One summer, through the help of a tenement neighbor, Richard's mother sends him to live with the McCreery family on a farm outside of Stroudsburg, ...
- Added: Feb 06, 2013
- Length: 13:42
Friendships on New York City streets are made and solidified by the games young Richard plays after school and on Saturdays. Which game is played d...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Feb 04, 2013
- Length: 18:01
- Purchases: 1
The tenement windowsill is the instrument of social interaction between neighbors and the social control of children on the street. The front wind...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Feb 03, 2013
- Length: 16:11
- Purchases: 1
Richard receives an early political education from his Socialist cigar maker grandfather, by hearing over-the-counter conversations at the butcher ...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Feb 02, 2013
- Length: 24:25
- Purchases: 1
The annual Army-Navy football game is one of the few opportunities for civilian types to have a front row seat to military culture. War News Radio’...
- Added: Dec 12, 2012
- Length: 08:40
Two stories about that key life moment many of us spend a lifetime dreading. It's a key life event that none of us live to tell about. The moment. ...
Bought by Aspen Public Radio, KOSU, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 27, 2012
- Length: 28:31
- Purchases: 3
On this episode, a pair of car accidents are just the beginning for two stories about life, death and perception....
Bought by WCNY, XRAY.fm, Aspen Public Radio, KOSU, WKMS and more
- Added: Mar 15, 2012
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 6
On this episode... two surprising, funny and spellbinding stories on the subject of prison.
Bought by WCNY, KUOW, Aspen Public Radio, KOSU, WKMS and more
- Added: Mar 15, 2012
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 7
