March 7, 1981 - This week's edition of New Letters on the Air features a writer from Oberlin College, David Young. Hosted by Elbert Bell.
March 7, 1981 - Playwright Corinne Jacker discusses her play, "Bits and Pieces" performed by the At Random company at the Hennepin Center for the Arts, as well as a new play, "Domestic Issues", which will be read at the Playwrights' Center on Sunday evening.
March 7, 1981 - In public and with his friends Coleman was renowned for his great with and temper. But there was another side to Coleman...a wistful side. It was learned a few weeks ago that Coleman, a democrat, and senator Jim Ulland of Duluth, a republican, played a game for years...Coleman was a leader in Queen Victoria's regiment in the late 1800s; Ulland was a young lieutenant learning the ropes. Despite the political clashes over taxes, the stadium, the economy and other controversial issues at the Minnesota legislature - the two senators imagined themselves in another time.
March 8, 1981 -
March 10, 1981 - Vanished Voices: New Yorkers in the Thirties, a five-part series. This collection of interviews based on unpublished materials collected by the Federal Writers' Project in the 1930's recounts the experiences of immigrants to New York City.
March 11, 1981 - Vanished Voices: New Yorkers in the Thirties, a five-part series. Unpublished materials collected in the 1930's by the Federal Writers' Project are the basis for this program of stories about union organizing, including one protesting hair bobbing.This program features workers stories of their union activities: Morse code operators, radiomen on merchant ships, and one tale relates an organized hair bobbing that was sparked by the firing of a junior nurse for showing up at work with bobbed hair.
March 12, 1981 - Vanished Voices: New Yorkers in the Thirties, a five-part series. In unpublished materials collected in the 1930's by the Federal Writers' Project, New Yorkers talk about witch doctors, herbalists and ambulance drivers.
March 13, 1981 - Vanished Voices: New Yorkers in the Thirties, a five-part series. In unpublished materials collected by the Federal Writers' Project in the 1930's, people of New York talk about friendships, romance, and the American Dream.
March 14, 1981 -
March 14, 1981 - Readings of the work of various writers focus on fathers.