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Miller Anniversary

NPR

Published December 15, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

On this day in 1944, bandleader Glenn Miller's plane was lost over the English Channel. Peter Solomon of member station WCVE talks to Miller's lead clarinetist, Michael "Peanuts" Hucko, about the day his boss disappeared.

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Remembering documentary filmmaker Eleanor Coppola

Terry Gross

Coppola, who died April 12, was an assistant art director on the 1963 film Dementia 13 when she met, and soon married, its director, Francis Ford Coppola. Originally broadcast in 1992.
Remembering Robert MacNeil, longtime host of PBS 'NewsHour'

Terry Gross

During his decades-long career, MacNeil reported on the Kennedy assassination, the Cuban missile crisis and the fall of the Berlin Wall. He died April 12. Originally broadcast in 1986 and 1995.
Tesla recalls Cybertruck over sticky problem. Blame it on — yes — soap

Camila Domonoske

Accelerator pedals on the new Cybertrucks can get stuck, a potentially dangerous production flaw. The reason why they're so sticky is soap.

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