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To Bra or Not To Bra
Airdate: Wednesday - January 12, 1972

WOR Show
Original Airing

(Redated from: 4/1972)

audio

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

We'd like to begin tonight - this is a pot pourrie night. . . .

Show Description

"The Answer Man" The Bra(less) test - Place a plain wooden pencil under one breast. If the pencil does not stay there and falls you can go without a bra. Shep asks to hear from some women in the audience to call in with their own test results. Two people are married via television. The minister appears on TV to marry the couple. Bedridden patients become active when BBC puts sex show on TV Salute to Dumont, NJ - Cultural activity. Dumont launches its new cultural series showing the film King Kong. I can see culture is a very serious project in Dumont NJ. Univ of Calif. Prof. of Eng. J. D. McKenzee has combine cow manure and glass bottles to produce bricks. Stanford Calif - special surgical masks have been developed for doctors sporting big beards. Lack of red M&Ms - spokesman says there is a failure of the company that makes the red dye to come up with a better formula. "John" paper squeezing. Human Cannonball

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WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
• 17:42	This is WOR New York

Salutes

A Salute to. . .

• Dumont NJ

Commercials (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
• 17:48	Ornithopter (Flying Bird)
• 7:45	New York Institute of Technology

Music (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
• 04:58; 12:05	Unknown - Mozart with nose flute

Callers

Time	Caller	Notes
34:13	• Victim of the media - never squeezed 'john' paper before she herd about it
13:01	• Taking the Bra Test
16:10	• Taking the Bra Test
20:08	• Taking the Bra Test
22:10	• Taking the Bra Test

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
• 18:55	Herb Squire
• 23:38	Leigh Brown

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

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Airdate History ' - Original' date is earliest known broadcast)

	Date	Title
	January 12, 1972 Recno: 757	To Bra or Not To Bra	Original Airing

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Show	Replay Date
Mass Backwards	July 19, 2005

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