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Podcast: Breaking Walls: The Podcast on the History of American Network Radio Broadcasting
Episode: BW - EP159—003: NYC In January 1956 With Johnny Dollar—Grace Kelly Gets Engaged
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It’s a little after midnight on the morning of Monday January 9th. We’re at P.J. Clarke’s on the corner of 55th street and 3rd avenue, getting warm the best way we know how. The weather is nasty outside. It’s about fifteen degrees with freezing rain and gale force winds.
Clarke’s is a bar from another time. It’s wonderfully trapped in nostalgia—all burnished wood and chased mirrors.
Orson Welles is opening King Lear at The City Center to good reviews. The years in Europe did him well...