Mike Nichols, early work

It has to be said: 

The WFMT announcer's lot is not a happy one...

( Keep going... )

WFMT still uses this script, written by Mike Nichols in the 1950s, to audition hopeful job seekers.  You can hear it read aloud here: https://soundcloud.com/wfmt/the-wfmt-classical-announcer-audition