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Episode 113, March 1, 2025 - Jean Shepherd Marathon, Part 7


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In this episode of the Jean Shepherd Marathon:
  1. From February 27, 1961, Native rights,  a lady cab driver,  a beatnik asks for "vanilla, " a Manhattan tradition,  three thousand golf scores,  a matter of time.  
  2. From March 1, 1961, H.  G.  Grubbage and the news,  a crack in suburban Philadelphia.  "Ricky and Debby in Sardine Land. " A nose flute solo,  Babe Ruth and the wooden pig.  
  3. From March 2, 1961, A chat with Mother Nature.  Obstructionism as a way of life,  ghost believers.  Don't miss the twelve midnight WOR time tone!  
  4. From September 4, 1961, Who is really an American?  Square eggs from North Carolina.  Swimming pools and fallout shelters.  A Bangalore Torpedo movie in the army.  Part of the program's opening theme has been deleted.  
  5. From September 5, 1961, An unsolvable problem: rats and cheese,  non-violent violence.  The probabilities of suicide.  Being in a box; reading a work by James Thurber.  
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