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  • Studs Terkel

    Terkel comments and presents "Hard Times: an oral history of the great depression" ; Program 5 ; part 1

    1971
  • Discussing the book "Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright" with author and architectural preservationist Brendan Gill

    Dec. 3, 1987
  • Interviewing French cartoonist Louis Mittleberg (Tim) while Studs was in France

    Nov. 1, 1962
  • Discussing the Works Progress Administration's (WPA) and Comprehensive Employment and Training Act's (CETA) artist's exhibition, "Feds: Two Generations of Federally Employed Artists," showing at Truman College

    Mar. 5, 1986
  • Abraham Rattner discusses his upbringing and his work

    1970
  • Talking about skyscrapers, with Stanley Tigerman and Stuart Cohen

    Jun. 23, 1980
  • Herbert Block, known as "Herblock," discusses his drawings as an editorial cartoonist and the new book "Straight Herblock"

    Nov. 13, 1964
  • Charles Eames

    Charles Eames discusses his life of travel and his study of design and architecture, part 2

    Oct. 1, 1965
  • George Nelson discusses industrial design and the effects on people; part 2

    Jan. 16, 1962
  • Shel Silverstein

    Shel Silverstein discusses his books, children's literature, and art; part 2

    Nov. 20, 1961
  • Discussing the book "Chinese encounters" with the authors Arthur Miller and Inge Morath

    Oct. 16, 1979
  • Oswald Grube, Harry Weese and Don Klimovich discuss architecture

    May. 10, 1976
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