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Re: Book and Author Luncheon · by BobbyP 6/16/2021, 12:01 pm

Book and Authors Luncheon. November 22, 1955. WNYC, New York City. Irita Van Doren (host), Chester Bowles (speaking about his book, "The New Dimensions of Peace"), A.C. Spectorsky (speaking about his book, "The Exurbanites"), Guthrie McClintic (speaking about his acting career). 61:42.

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Book and Authors Luncheon. February 21, 1956. WNYC, New York City. Irita Van Doren (host), Alec Waugh (speaking about his book, "Island in the Sun"), Leonard Larabee (speaking about his book, "Mr. Franklin"), Theodore Sorensen (speaking about John Kennedy and "Profile in Courage"). 57:32.

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Book and Authors Luncheon. March 20, 1956. WNYC, New York City. Irita Van Doren (host), Walter Lord (speaking about his book, "A Night to Remember"), William Keating (speaking about his book, "The Man Who Rocked the Boat" and crime in New York), Herbert Kubly (speaking about his book, "American in Italy"). 56:49.

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Book and Authors Luncheon. April 17, 1956. WNYC, New York City. Irita Van Doren (host), Charles Cameron (speaking about his book, "The Truth About Cancer"), Nile Ivanovna Magidoff (speaking about becoming an American), Edwin O'Connor (speaking about his book, "The Last Hurrah"). 58:55.

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Book and Authors Luncheon. October 23, 1956. WNYC, New York City. Irita is presented with a television set (her first). The guest authors discuss their latest books. Irita Van Doren (host), Kathryn Hulme, Edward Everett Tanner III, Arthur Holly Compton, Maurice Dolbier (host). 60:14.

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Book and Authors Luncheon. November 20, 1956. WNYC, New York City. Irita Van Doren (host), Peter Freuchen (speaking about his book, "The Legend of Daniel Williams"), Edward Streeter (speaking about his book, "Merry Christmas, Mr. Baxter"), George Schuster (speaking about the Hungarian revolution). 52:26.

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Book and Authors Luncheon. February 19, 1957. WNYC, New York City. Irita Van Doren (host), Don Whitehead (speaking about his book, "The FBI Story"), Henriette Rosenberg (speaking about her book, "The Walls Came Tumbling Down"), S.J. Perelman. 53:42.

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Book and Authors Luncheon. March 19, 1957. WNYC, New York City. Irita Van Doren (host), James Michener (speaking about the Hungarian revolution), Laura Fermi (speaking about her book, "Atoms in the Family: My Life With Enrico Fermi"), Gilbert Highet (speaking about his book, "Juvenal the Satirist: A Study"). 58:14.

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Book and Authors Luncheon. April 30, 1957. WNYC, New York City. Irita Van Doren (host), Charles Van Doren (nephew of Irita, speaking about his book, "Lincoln's Commando"), Gypsy Rose Lee (speaking about her career in show business), Walter Lord (speaking about his book, "Day Of Infamy"). 56:59.

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Book and Authors Luncheon. October 22, 1957. WNYC, New York City. Irita Van Doren (host), Walter Kerr (speaking about his book, "Pieces at Eight"), Bennett Cerf (speaking about his book, "Reading for Pleasure"), Edward Weeks (editor of "The Atlantic Monthly"), Bernard Baruch (speaking about his autobiography, "Baruch: My Own Story"). 57:42.

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Book and Authors Luncheon. December 2, 1957. WNYC, New York City. Irita Van Doren (host), Willy Ley (speaking about his book, "Rockets, Missiles and Space Travel"), Eleanor Robeson Belmont (speaking about her memoir), Whitney Griswold (President of Yale). 53:57.

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Book and Authors Luncheon. January 13, 1958. WNYC, New York City. Irita Van Doren (host), Vance Packard (speaks about his book, "The Hidden Persuaders"), Mary Margaret McBride (who speaks about her book, "The Mary Margaret McBride Encyclopedia of Cooking"), Henry Kissinger (speaking about the report on foreign policy he worked on for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund). 57:59.

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Book and Authors Luncheon. February 17, 1958. WNYC, New York City. Maurice Dolbier (host), Kay Thompson (speaking about her book, "Eloise"), Ruth Slencynska (speaking about her book, "Childhood"), Dean Acheson (speaking about his book, "A Citizen Looks at Congress"). 53:55.

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Book and Authors Luncheon. March 10, 1958. WNYC, New York City. Irita Van Doren (host), Maurice Dolbier (host), Mark Van Doren (Irita's brother-in-law, speaking about his book, "Don Quixote's Profession"), Clifton Fadiman (speaking about his book, "Fantasia Mathematica"), Charles Snow (speaking about his book, "The Conscience of the Rich"). 50:43.

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Book and Authors Luncheon. April 14, 1958. WNYC, New York City. Irita Van Doren (host), Elmo Roper (speaking about the "near-science" of public opinion research), Edna Ferber (speaking about her book, "Ice Palace"), John Gunther (speaking about his book, "Inside Russia Today"). 57:10.

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Book and Authors Luncheon. October 27, 1958. WNYC, New York City. Irita Van Doren (host), Fannie Hurst (speaking about her book, "Anatomy of Me"), Vladimir Nabokov (speaking about his book, "Lolita"), Agnes De Mille (speaking about her book, "Promenade Home"). 69:22.

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Book and Authors Luncheon. April 13, 1959. WNYC, New York City. Irita Van Doren (host), Harry and Bonaro Overstreet (speaking about their book, "What We Must Know About Communism"), Alexander King (speaking about his book, "Mine Enemy Grows Older"), James Conant (speaking about his book, "A Study of the American High School"). 56:44.

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Book and Author Luncheon
October 26, 1959
The speakers include the librettist Moss Hart discussing his autobiography, "Act One;" Marchette Chute, discussing her joint biography of the Elizabethan Poets George Herbert And Robert Herrick, entitled "Two Gentle Men"; and baseball great, catcher Roy Campanella discussing his autobiography, "It's Good to Be Alive."

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Book and Author Luncheon
November 30, 1959
Humorist Leo Rosten speaks on comedy and free societies, biographer Catherine D. Bowen discusses her research problems, and former governor and foreign policy buff Averell Harriman speaks on his time in the Soviet Union, his assessment of their leaders, and his book "Peace With Russia?"

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Book and Author Luncheon. January 18, 1960. WNYC, New York City. Irita Van Doren (host), Maurice Dolbier (host), Cornelius Ryan (speaks about his book, "The Longest Day"), John T. Wilson (speaks about the science and technology of Communist China), Alan Drury (speaks about the political scene in Washington, D.C.). 52:00.

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Book and Author Luncheon. April 11, 1960. WNYC, New York City. Irita Van Doren (host), Maurice Dolbier (host), Perle Mesta (speaking about her autobiography, "Perle"), Jessamyn West (speaking about literature), Pierson Dixon. 52:24.

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Book and Author Luncheon. November 21, 1960. WNYC, New York City. Irita Van Doren (host), William L. Shirer (speaking about his book, "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich"), Peter Ustinov (speaking about his book, "The Loser"). 32:47.

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Book and Author Luncheon. February 20, 1961. WNYC, New York City. Irita Van Doren (host), Maurice Dolbier (host, book reviewer for the New York Herald Tribune), Theodore White (speaks about his book, "The Making of the President"), Edward Streeter (speaks about his book, "Chairman of the Bored"), Leo Rosten (speaks about his career and books). 51:28.

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Book and Author Luncheon. March 21, 1961. WNYC, New York City. Irita Van Doren (host), Maurice Dolbier (host), Ernest Gann (speaking about his book, "Fate Is the Hunter"), Mitchell Wilson (speaking about his book, "Meeting at a Far Meridian"), Lewis Mumford (who does not speak about his book, "The City in History," but speaks instead about "pregnancy and prenatal care and childbirth among authors"). 55:00.

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Book and Author Luncheon. April 17, 1961. WNYC, New York City. Irita Van Doren (host), Maurice Dolbier (host), John Gardner (speaks about his book, "Excellence: Can We Be Equal and Excellent Too?"), Cedric Hardwicke (speaks about his book, "A Victorian in Orbit"), Barbara Ward (speaks about her book, "India and the West"). 48:14.

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