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Studs Terkel.
(From Guardian Unlimited)
Studs Terkel master chronicler of American life in the 20th century, veteran radical and vibrant soul of the midwestern capital of Chicago has died, aged 96. To register him as "writer and broadcaster" would be like calling Louis Armstrong a "trumpeter" or the Empire State Building an "office block". Strictly and sparsely speaking, it is true.
He is best known to Americans as the voice that asked the questions on the Studs Terkel Show which ran for 45 years, syndicated from the WFMT radio station of downtown Chicago. The tapes of his interviews take up rack after rack at WFMT; there are 9,000 of them, and Studs was setting ...
- Interview With Radio Personality Studs Terkel
- Transcript from: Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR) January 21, 1995 700+ words
...the hell have you done now?' STUDS TERKEL, Radio Host: Oh, mechanically, technically? SCOTT SIMON: Yeah. STUDS TERKEL: Well, I've got to make it...I was checking your shoelaces. STUDS TERKEL: Oh, my shoelaces. Do they make...
- VOICES OF OUR TIMES: FIVE DECADES OF STUDS TERKEL INTERVIEWS.(Review)
- Magazine article from: The Oral History Review Stein, Alan Harris January 1, 2001 700+ words
VOICES OF OUR TIMES: FIVE DECADES OF STUDS TERKEL INTERVIEWS. Producer, Tom Voegeli. Chicago...Originally published as Four Decades With Studs Terkel, 1993.) While Studs Terkel is primarily known for his oral history books...
- Chicago Historical Society Puts Studs Terkel Collection Online.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 15, 2002 700+ words
...original interviews conducted by Studs Terkel for his award- winning books and...Historical Society announced today. Studs Terkel: Conversations with America...with a global audience amplifies Studs Terkel's legacy of asking questions...
- 40-YEAR HIT PARADE OF CELEBRITIES TALK TO STUDS TERKEL IN SIX HOURS OF AUDIO...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 11, 1994 700+ words
...Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel. Terkel, at 82 still interviewing...four tapes, Four Decades with Studs Terkel ($25 Highbridge Co., in bookstores...hosts the Peabody Award-winning Studs Terkel Show weekdays on WFMT. "No one...
- THE STUDS TERKEL LEGACY.(NEWS)
- Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) September 12, 1997 700+ words
...moody screen star opened up after Studs Terkel promised to stay off the subject...winner and host of the nightly ''Studs Terkel Show'' on Chicago radio station...S): Photo Author-radio host Studs Terkel is donating a lifetime of taped...
- Studs Terkel returns to his past on `Prairie Home'; In the `golden age' of...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Holston, Noel February 6, 1998 700+ words
People who know Studs Terkel from his best-selling oral histories...Walt Whitman heard America singing. Studs Terkel has heard America sighing, boasting...which he had misread as "Working Studs." Terkel, an unrepentant New Deal liberal...
- Studs Terkel died last October at age ninety-six, and the obituaries were many...
- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life February 1, 2009 700+ words
Studs Terkel died last October at age ninety-six...aural history of the real America." Studs Terkel once said he wanted as his epitaph...My impression is that the last thing Studs Terkel had to worry about was his curiosity...
- Studs Terkel: Hope Dies Last.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 6, 2003 700+ words
...PRNewswire/ -- RE: Chicago Legend Studs Terkel Discusses His New Book -- Hope...Sunday, October 12, 2003 Join Studs Terkel, CHS' Distinguished Scholar...Store on the day of the event. Studs Terkel will be available for a special...