Sept. 6, 2022
John talks about talking to Lewis Chester
This week’s episode of The Musical Innertube has special meaning for me. I read American Melodrama around 1970 or so; my dad got me to read it. It’s an amazing, magisterial account of the events of 1968, beautifully written from a non-American POV. So I reached out to Lewis Chester, the book’s last surviving co-author, and we had a wonderful talk. Hope you enjoy — a remembrance of history from one who was there!
Gone
Quite the week for departures, wasn't it? CBS Radio News, dead before it could reach 100. Bill Kurtis retiring from one of our favorite NPR shows, "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me." And, of course, the biggie, Stephen Colbert.The Late Sh…
Kudos for Art and John!
This fuzzy pic is from the retirement party for Art Caplan, who retired from his post as head of the Division of Medical Ethics at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine in New York City. It shows Don heaping praise on Art, with John ready to also he…
