Sixty years ago, Jean Shepherd — a popular commentator on WOR radio — hopped on a busload of everyday citizens bound for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. When he disembarked at the ...

I’m startled awake by the galloping rhythms of Eduard Strauss’ “Bahn Frei” polka, blasting from the 50,000-watt signal of WOR radio in the New York suburb of Carteret, N.J., to my home in Philadelphia ...

Dawn broke innocently over Washington Square last Saturday. It was a gray, quiet day until 1:30, when several hundred young people, mostly in their teens, filled the circle yelling to one another ...

People who sweat out an ordinary, humdrum existence make up a world ever at war with “night people.” This is the opinion advanced by a late-hour New Jersey disk jockey named Jean (after Victor Hugo’s ...