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Re: Hosts Of WBAI's "The Pursuit of Happines" commit suicide

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From: Phil Kane
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:02
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On Sun, 9 Jun 2013 20:48:06 -0700 (PDT), spamtrap1888
<spamtrap1888@gmail.com> wrote:

>Tangentially on this topic -- the NY Times had a nice article recently
>on how the Jewish Daily Forward was helping keep Yiddish alive, at
>least on its website. The article went on to say that the Forward had
>always been interested in new technologies, back to WEVD days. Not
>sure if they still had a radio station or not.

IIRC the WEVD of old is long gone.  On that subject, I have a close
friend, now 70 y/o, who grew up in a Yiddish-speaking three-generation
household who didn't realize that the family's radio could tune to
stations that spoke English until she was 6 years old!

Phil Kane
Beaverton, OR
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From: Phil Kane <Phil.Kane@nov.shmovz.ka.pop>
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Subject: Re: Hosts Of WBAI's "The Pursuit of Happines" commit suicide
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