Transcript: Interview With Radio Personality Studs Terkel

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SCOTT SIMON, Host: This is Weekend Edition. I'm Scott Simon. A number of years ago, I was working out of the engineer's lounge at a radio station in Chicago, WFMT, and it seemed not two weeks would go by that a man with a tossed salad of silver hair, scuffed shoes, a chewed- off cigar stump and a dangling tie, didn't present himself in the doorway, looking chagrined. Now, once he held out what looked like a litter of black spaghetti in his hands- recording tape that had rolled off a reel. Usually, he held a small tape recorder up in his hands, the way a child might hold out a toy truck with a busted wheel. `Gee, Studs,' the engineers would say, `what the hell have ...

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