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1956
1956 Calendar

Last Update: April 06, 2008

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Special Event

MISC

     

JANUARY

Th January 5, 1956  Start of Weekday Shows on WOR 710 New York - 1:00am to 5:30am
Sa

January 21, 1956

Last of Saturday Shows on WOR 710 New York - 3:30pm to 5:30pm

FEBRUARY

     

MARCH

 

March 1956

Audio Magazine Column - "Jazz by Jean"

APRIL

     

MAY

We

May 9, 1956

Village Voice Column - How HI the Good Life of Madison Avenue's Fi! 

JUNE

We

June 20, 1956

Village Voice Column - Uh-Oh, Here Comes That Old Technology Again

JULY

 

July 1956

Audio Magazine Column - "Jazz by Jean"
 

July 26, 1956

Hammond Times - Shepherd Appeals to 'Scholars'

AUGUST

 

August 1956

Audio Magazine Column - "Jazz by Jean"
We

August 1, 1956

Wall Street Journal Article - "Night People Hoax On Day People Makes Hit With Book Folks"
We

August 1, 1956

Village Voice Column - Onward and Upward For Nothing-Heads
We

August 1, 1956

Village Voice - "The Book That Wasn't"
Mo

August 13, 1956

This was scheduled to be Shep's last show, but he was given a one week reprieve when 400 fans protested in front of Wanamaker Dept Store.
Sa

August 8, 1956

New York Times - "Night People" by John Crosby
Sa

August 8, 1956

Life Magazine - "Don't Let The Doldrums Fool You"
Sa

August 8, 1956

Puerto Rico World Journal - "Literary Freak"
Sa

August 8, 1956

The London Times - "An American Literary Interlude"
Sa

August 13, 1956

New York Times - "400 Hold A Wake For Radio Cult"
Fr

August 17, 1956

Shep was pulled of the air about 2:30 am by general manager Robert J Leder after he was heard advertising "Sweetheart Soap" for which no commercial time was sold.
Fr

August 17, 1956

New York Times - "Shepherd in Soup Over Soap As WOR Fires Him Again"
Fr

August 17, 1956

Ballantine Books press release for "I, Libertine"
Sa

August 18, 1956

New York Times article about Shep being pulled off the air.
Su

August 19, 1956

Follow up to New York Times article about Shep being pulled off the air.
Tu

August 28, 1956

New York Times - "Shepherd Gets A Soap Sponser"
We

August 29, 1956

Village Voice Column - Quo Vadis    (First "Night People" of the columns)
Fr

August 31, 1956

N.Y. Times - "Shepherd Rejoins Flock"

SEPTEMBER

Su

September 2, 1956

Premier of Sunday evening show - 9:00pm to 1:00am
Mo

September 3, 1956

"The Night is Different" Article in Newsweek
Mo

September 4, 1956

New York Times - "Jean Shepherd Returns to WOR"
We

September 5, 1956

Front page lead-in to column
Village Voice Column - Jazz It Up Charlie
Th

September 13, 1956

"I, Libertine" comes out in bookstores
Su

September 16, 1956

New York Times Book Review - "Be-Bop Minuet" I Libertine Review
We

September 19, 1956

Village Voice Column - The Arena
We

September 26, 1956

Village Voice Column - Progress

OCTOBER

Mo

October 1, 1956

"The Night People" Time Magazine Article
We

October 3, 1956

Village Voice Column - The Miracle Ingredient
We

October 17, 1956

Village Voice Column - Fame
We

October 24, 1956

Village Voice Column - A True Story
We

October 31, 1956

Village Voice Column - Protest

NOVEMBER

We November 14, 1956 Village Voice Column - The Voice From Within A Cocoon
We November 21, 1956 Village Voice Column - Functional People

DECEMBER

  December 1956 Town and Country Magazine Column
We December 5, 1956 Village Voice Column - Veni, Vidi, Vidiocy
We December 19, 1956 Village Voice Column - Merry Christmas From Little Brother

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