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JOHN WILCOCK: A Job at the New York Times (1959)

Chapter Four concludes with a job at the New York Times travel desk, a bit of music from the Monk Quartet, and a rotten act from Norman Mailer.

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JOHN WILCOCK: Interview at the New Yorker

A visit to the New Yorker building in 1959, at its original location at 25 west 43rd street.

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CIA Canoe Tours & Strip-chess in Karachi: JOHN WILCOCK's Life-changing 1959 World Trip

An early opportunity in the 1950′s to visit the New York Times’ press bureau in Hong Kong sends John Wilcock on his first trip around the world.

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JOHN WILCOCK: Four Significant Events in the U.S. Counterculture, 1958 & 1959

A round up of items that helped shape the underground culture of the late fifties. With Paul Krassner, Robert Anton Wilson, Yoko Ono, God’s Penis, and Gustav Metzger.

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JOHN WILCOCK: Thelonious Monk's Heroin Arrest

The John Wilcock comic returns with the story of Thelonious Monk’s heroin arrest, followed by John’s personal memory of seeing Monk play at the Five Spot.

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JOHN WILCOCK: The History of ECHO, "The Magazine You Play on Your Phonograph" (1958)

The story behind Larry Adler, Flexidisks and Echo, “the magazine you play on your phonograph.”

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JOHN WILCOCK COMIC: Mexico Break-up, Leroi Jones, and Gypsy Rose Lee

Introducing a new monthly comic strip on Boing Boing, from Ethan Persoff and Scott Marshall.

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