The WETA Saturday broadcast of the rout

pivotal · 7 Nov YDAU, ~1435-1445h

• When: 7 November YDAU, during the last P.M. class period
• What: Troeltsch's pseudo-radio program, backed by its operatic sting, comes over the West House intercom, and he reports E.T.A.'s 71-37 rout of Port Washington in his self-consciously lurid announcer's diction ("disembowelled"; "moonballed him into a narcoleptic coma"). This is the on-page enactment of his defining act and the anchor for the whole broadcaster-vocation backstory — delivered over the antiquated iron stand-up mike he considers an affront to the profession.