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"Life Goes to a Party" would be a few years into the future at the time of the setting of today's episode (late November/early December, 1932), but we do indeed get a dose of the high life at the Goodbody mansion on Gramercy Park. But Anthony Lupo isn't there to have fun; at least, that's not his primary objective. It might not even be the primary objective of his escort. Who seems to have mysteriously been given a LOT of assistance...
The thumbnail is a Bernice Abbott picture of Nos. 3-4, Gramercy Park West. I've never been in that building, nor in the park itself, though I have been to the National Arts Club that's referred to in the story.
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The thumbnail is a Bernice Abbott picture of Nos. 3-4, Gramercy Park West. I've never been in that building, nor in the park itself, though I have been to the National Arts Club that's referred to in the story.
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Category Story / Fantasy
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In all seriousness, there seems to have been a big "thing" about archaeology in Germany in the Wilhelmine period and a bit before; Schleimann/Troy, for example, and I think Kaiser Wilhelm II was a keen amateur digger, owning a place in Crete. One could imagine, of course, that Elvish studies would have been attractive in 1920s Germany.
Thank you for the Herd and the Packherd. Interesting side note that you re using Walter Winchell, in the 30's was the loud voice of the society page in his day. and a word of scorn from him could and did sink careers. we was a phenomenon that did not last, and he died without anyone caring, other than his voice being stilled.
St. Clair McKelway, of the New Yorker, wrote an interesting book on Winchell in the late 1930s that was one of the first to really go after Walter; the book is hard to find in print, but is well worth it. More recent bios have, of course, ripped up what's left of the man's reputation. As late as just after the War, though, he was a force to be reckoned with, and was virtually the only ABC performer in the top 20 as of about 1945 (when ABC emerged from being the Blue Network).
The real, serious answer goes back to the 1920s. When NBC was formed, after AT&T sold out its media interests (and not for the first time!), NBC found itself with two groups of radio stations, one with WEAF in New York as the lead station, and the other, WJZ in New York. The charts that showed how the station groups were interconnected had red lines for the WEAF network, and blue for the WJZ network, and those nicknames stuck. For a while, there were other networks, like the Orange Network, which was a group of West Coast station that operated separately until they were able to bridge the Rocky Mountains with sufficient telephone line capacity to allow interchanges. NBC-Red was always the bigger, more profitable network. When the federal government charged RCA (NBC's owner) with anti-trust violations in the late 30s, NBC eventually agreed to spin off the NBC-Blue network. The fellow who owned Life Savers candies bought the largest portion, and NBC-Blue became the Blue Network in 1942. A few years later, in 1945, the Blue changed its name to the American Broadcasting Company. I largely wrote the original Wiki article on the Blue Network, based on my archive of Blue Network materials.
NBC-Blue got a reputation, somewhat deserved, for being a bit more high-brow than NBC-Red, which had the more mass-popular programs. NBC-Blue, for example, did the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts, and had a lot of public affairs programs (Town Hall Meeting of the Air was a long-lasting one). The disadvantage is that NBC-Red could cherry-pick the best shows (Jack Benny, e.g.), and leave the Blue with the leavings. That's why ABC was behind the eight ball for years and years -- it wasn't until clear into the 1960s that ABC became truly competitive.
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