Thanks to the concept of early voting, I’m done for another four years in terms of those top of the ticket entries!!
We all, presumably, want a first-rate democracy while maintaining our position as the best and strongest nation on Earth. Of course, how we go about achieving that is at the voting booth where each of us has one, and only one, chance to make our voice heard.
Whenever you do that, make the right choice, and if you’re not sure ahead of time, read and think about it some more, rather than calling a friend, as someone whose opinion you may think is golden, could differ from yours.
Good luck and may the best people win for them, us and the world!
Editor’s Note: Abstention because you don’t like either candidate is not an option. Find something you like about one…or dislike about one-make a choice, and VOTE. It’s your right. It’s your duty. usa.gov/voting-rights
Julius La Rosa was hired as a disc jockey on WNEW in 1970. That’s when I got to know him while working as a newscaster on the station. Off the air Julie was great to know-personable and willing to talk
Bill Diehl & Julius La Rosa
about his time with Arthur Godfrey when he was fired in 1953. Godfrey said later it was because Julie lacked humility, but what really angered ‘the old redhead’ was La Rosa had hired an agent, a big no-no-no because Godfrey wanted total control over his so-called ‘little Godfrey’s’.
Firing La Rosa backfired. Ed Sullivan immediately hired La Rosa for appearances on his “Toast of the Town.” During the summer of 1955, La Rosa had a three times a week TV series on CBS. In ’56 and ’57 he hosted summer shows as a seasonal replacement for Perry Como. Shortly after leaving Godfrey La Rosa had several hit records, including “Eh Compari” and “Domani.”
Years later when I got to really know Julie we talked about his career and Godfrey. Julie said, “As an entertainer he was the best salesman in the world. I was a 20-yr-old kid in the Navy from Brooklyn and Godfrey gave me a golden opportunity to be on his shows. Happy memories? Are you kidding?! There was a year and a half of total and complete joy, I mean look at me ma, that kind of thing. I was doing what I had one day dreamed I would do.”
Julie told me that after the firing <he> met Godfrey in his office, “offered my hand in friendship and he rejected it.” Godfrey died in 1983 at 79. “Now that he’s gone,” said La Rosa, “I shall pray that he will rest in peace.” La Rosa said they met briefly once on Fifth Avenue walking in different directions. “I took his hand and said, you’re looking well, and he said thank you. And I said, you better watch it, or they’ll make an item of us.”
Good morning, Arlene…
Thinking of you, Mike and other loved ones on this day!
Mike was a man who loved life and who derived satisfaction from telling the every-day stories of New York, the nation and the world via WHN, Mutual News, NBC Radio and WNEW, where he was the gregarious News Director for ten years until that one-of-a-kind station left the air in 1992.
Bob
Editors Note: Thank you, Bob Gibson, for your contribution. The below announcement can be found in the WNEW
archives dated 23-Aug-2023.
In response to the July 20, 2024 post, MAN on the MOON, I felt this comment (and video) was better communicated as a post rather than a comment.
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Thank you, Marianne.
This is also wonderful.
2019 Apollo 50: Go for the Moon
Feel free to share this ( … ).
Thank you for keeping this going.
Mike Moss
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The National Air Space Museum shared this beautiful video of the entire “Apollo 50: Go for the Moon” show that was projected onto the Washington Monument in July of 2019.
COURTESY: “Apollo 50: Go for the Moon” was commissioned by the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum and produced by 59 Productions. The Museum’s Apollo 50 programs were made possible by the support of Boeing with additional support from Raytheon.
Editors note: Earlier this year, I received this lovely note from Mike Moss who is not only a fan of WNEW1130.com, but a radio colleague.
My name is Mike Moss. Your dad visited St. Anthony’s HS on a career day and from that moment I wanted to be a broadcast journalist. I had a great career and even had the pleasure of working with your dad at NBC. He was a great guy and I wanted you to know he holds a special place in my heart.
Four simple words sum up this story: “MAN ON THE MOON!”
Depending upon where you lived in these United States 55 years ago late last night or early this morning earthlings by the name of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first known humans to set foot on the lunar surface. Yes, it was another case of virtually the whole world was watching and that includes Group W Aerospace.
Apollo 11 (July 16–24, 1969) was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon, 20-Jul-1969.
Correspondent Jim Slade who was aided and abetted by Beach Rogers of Westinghouse station, KFWB, Los Angeles. There were a multitude of places on the radio and TV dials to have followed this unforgettable story but Group W always figures in my accounts for two simple reasons: I was at the time, the morning news broadcaster at Westinghouse station KDKA, Pittsburgh, and Jim Slade’s work with words and explanations, impressed me to no end! That’s not to say that Mr. Rogers was an after-thought. Definitely not! What all started with JFK’s declaration on September 12, 1962 that “We choose to go to the moon,” included a promise to make this out-of-this-world journey before the end of the 1960s. So, less than 7 years later, President Kennedy’s vision became reality as Apollo 11 roared into the heavens carrying astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins into history. Four days after the blast-off from Cape Kennedy, Armstrong and Aldrin were prancing about on the moon’s surface looking and observing in total wonderment as they went about conducting various experiments.
To be sure, it was a trip for the ages and featured a message left on the lunar surface that “We came in peace,” and then that memorable quote from Armstrong, Wapakoneta’s pride and joy, “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind!” That may be in the history books just a collection of meaningful words, but for the many millions across the Earth who were listening to their radios and watching the dramatic events unfold on television, that phrase truly packed a wallop! More than 8 days after lift-off in Florida the trio of Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins made a safe splashdown in the Pacific about 800 miles southwest of Hawaii and a dozen miles from the recovery ship, the U.S.S. Hornet.
In looking back, this was another giant page in the annals of NASA’s outstanding work and an event chock-full of memories and history for skyward-watching Earthlings!
Below is a reprise of the July 15, 2019 post by Edward Brown.
Click on links below for the Apollo 11 production, a profile of George Engle by Alan Walden, Executive Producer Mike Stein; and a National Geographic feature on the Future of Space Flight.
On July 2nd, the Continental Congress voted in favor of Lee’s resolution for independence in a near-unanimous vote (the New York delegation abstained, but later voted affirmatively). On that day, John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail that July 2 “will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary
July 4th Fireworks, Washington, D.C. Carol M Highsmith, photographer
Festival” and that the celebration should include “Pomp and Parade…Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other.”
On July 4th, the Continental Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence , which had been written largely by Jefferson. Though the vote for actual independence took place on July 2nd, from then on the 4th became the day that was celebrated as the birth of American independence.
Unanimous Declaration of Independence 1776
Did you know? John Adams believed that July 2nd was the correct date on which to celebrate the birth of American independence, and would reportedly turn down invitations to appear at July 4th events in protest. Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4, 1826—the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
Mike Eisgrau is no stranger to the media or to public relations. For over ten years, Mike was the director of public affairs for the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center of New York. He was responsible for all public relations and print and broadcast media contact, including acting as the spokesman for the premier, world-class convention facility and as the PR contact with major government, trade show management and convention center officials from around the world.From the other side of the news desk, Mike has a career’s worth of experience as a reporter, editor and news director in both radio and television. As broadcast news editor for WWOR-TV in New Jersey, Mike was responsible for “Magazine” or “Enterprise” news stories produced by a staff of more than a dozen reporters. As news and copy editor for “Good Day New York” for WNYW-TV, Mike was responsible for writing and editing hourly and half-hourly newscasts on Fox TV’s New York morning show. For over twenty years, Mike served as a reporter, editor and news director for WNEW Radio News in New York, one of the nation’s premier local broadcast newsrooms of the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. He covered major local and national stories, including the funerals of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.; the Democratic and Republican conventions; state gubernatorial and presidential candidates on the campaign trail; and the 1969 Woodstock music festival. Mike holds a BA in Literature and Speech and Drama from Cornell University and an MSJ in broadcast news from the Medill from Northwestern University.
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