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NPR

April 18, 1998



Host: Dan Coffey

Official Judge and Scorekeeper: Carl Kasell

In studio players this week:
•Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post Style Section (Washington, DC)
•Charlie Pierce, Esquire Magazine (Boston)
•Margo Kaufman, Hollywood Correspondent, Pug Talk Magazine (Los Angeles)

"Headlines We Wish We'd Seen"

Round 1: Week in Review
The First Family's Taxes Are So Not Our Business, Pink Slips at the Russian Weather Service, Small Animals are Standing and more...

Round 2: "We'll Wait, You Tell Us" (Listener Segments)
•A Wildly Popular Theme Restaurant

"Gossip, Rumor & Innuendo" (people, entertainment news)


"Why Should We Know Who You Are?" (Mystery Newsmaker)
Betty Balanoff, of East Chicago, Indiana and Northwest Indiana Residents for Clean Air. Ms. Balanoff and others successfully lobbied to stop a train carrying 12,000 gallons of napalm from a naval facility in San Diego to a pollution treatment plan in their city.

"Lightning True or False"


"We'll Wait, You Tell Us" (Listener Segments)
•The origin of the word NAPALM

"Why Should We Know Who You Are?" (Mystery Newsmaker)
Kevin McCarthy, stadium manager at Shea Stadium in Queens, New York... home of the New York Mets. After a supporting beam fell in Yankee Stadium this week, the Yankees had to reschedule their games at Shea...creating some scheduling havoc for Mr. McCarthy and his staff.



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