Philip Quarles

Baruch is there ostensibly to talk about his best-selling memoir, but he would rather focus on the future of American politics and technology.

JFK confronts the Berlin Crisis and nuclear testing in this 1961 press conference. 

Or rather the Manhattan of Auchincloss' very exclusive world: "Old-fashioned, largely gone, but lingering in every store and under every auctioneer's gavel."

DePriest gives a comprehensive overview of what it is like to be a young, black, American-born conductor in a climate that overwhelmingly favors European maestros. 

Comedian Fred Allen plugs his book, Treadmill to Oblivion,  at the Book and Author Luncheon.

Senator John F. Kennedy talks about his recent book of essays, Profiles in Courage, at the 1956 National Book Awards.

Perrey, a fervent advocate for the then-new Moog Synthesizer as well as the Ondioline, one of the first electronic keyboards, is the guest on this episode of Music and the Message.

Two reports of Premier Gurion's visit in 1951, only three years after the founding of the state of Israel.

"What business does an actor have writing a book?" the venerable star of stage and screen asks at this 1961 Book and Authors Luncheon.

"I don't feel seventy and I never shall," Sir Thomas Beecham declares in this 1948 birthday tribute. 

Socialist icon and six-time US Presidential candidate Norman Thomas surveys the political and moral state of America.

Dr. Raoul Aglion, describes how he was fighting with French forces in Syria when the infamous armistice agreement between France and Nazi Germany was signed.

...is the question addressed in this 1967 panel discussion.

The former ambassador to Russia and past Governor of New York gives his thoughts on the USSR at this talk at the Book and Author Luncheon in 1959

Proposing that the creative process is the same for historians as for poets and novelists, Tuchman objects to her work being lumped with other "non-fiction."

How can men live together on this earth? noted educator and social activist Algernon Black asks in this 1951 talk given at Cooper Union. 

Clifton Fadiman, Robert Penn Warren, Catherine Drinker Bowen, John Cheever and Randall Jarrell speak at the National Book Awards in 1958

Agnes de Mille lauds the Council of the Arts, forerunner to today's NEA.

The American Negro Theatre, a crucial training ground for a generation of performers, brings Riders to the Sea to WNYC listeners.

John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth this archival audio from the Mercury 6 Mission.