4 Todd Storz chose to start rocking the country in New Orleans, and the story of how Storz's WTIX became America's first Top 40 radio station also answers the question you might have been asking yourself for the last 60 years.
Stories
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4 During the opening ceremonies of the 1964 Summer Games, 8,000 pigeons were released into the sky. Surely at least one member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) breathed a sigh of relief that Léon de Lunden was not there to create what certainly would have been a public relations nightmare.
Bye Bye Birdie
4 "Why don't we take a poll on election day instead of voting?” I asked my neighbor, wondering what mathematician Jacob Bernoulli would think of that.
Poll Dancing
2 I was not so crazy about Francine. It was nothing personal. I was 10 and she was a girl, that's all. But, my mother would slip me a couple of dimes every now and then with instructions to ask Francine out for an egg cream. Which I did. I'm sure Francine and I were both in it for the egg creams.
You’ll Never Swallow This
1 In 1938, the people who turned Better Crocker into a household name hoped to do the same with Helen Dettweiler by hiring her as radio's first woman baseball announcer.
She’s Not There
4 David Rees's book, “How to Sharpen Pencils,” performs a public service by restoring lost luster to a writing instrument that has as much positive connotation as a gypsy curse.