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Q:

Well, when you decided not to pursue your medical research career, you became interested, and of course I'm fascinated to find out how -- you became interested in radio, and in psychology of mass communications, if that's not too fancy a term.

Stanton:

No, no.

Q:

What happened to you?

Stanton:

It wasn't known in those days.

Q:

I know it's sort of an anachronism but --

Stanton:

Well, I guess my first interest in radio would go back to my junior year at Ohio Wesleyan. I had edited the yearbook --

Q:

The yearbook --

Stanton:

At Ohio Wesleyan.

Q:

Called the -- Excuse me.

Stanton:

Terrible. That's a junior year activity and I had been the editor of that. And I guess again in some measure going back to my display advertising interest and so forth.





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