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Great Moments in Fantasy Radio

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* 1895: Midway through his first successful radio transmission, Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi inexplicably finds himself offering Rolling Stones tickets to caller No. 12.

* 1929: A “What’s the Craziest Thing You’d Do for Yankees Tickets?” contest is won by a man who crawls down Fifth Avenue barking like a dog. Losing entrants include a Wall Street broker, who engineers a stock market crash and worldwide depression.

* 1991: Soviet coup leaders beg for leniency from President Gorbachev, saying the whole thing was merely a stunt to win a Disneyland trip from a local station.

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* 1992: Five leading Democrats withdraw from the presidential race after revelations that they entered only because a Washington station offered Madonna tickets to any listener who could win the nomination.

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