It’s the birthday of This American Life host Ira Glass, born in Baltimore (1959), who started working in radio, by his own account, “totally by accident.” He was 19, had just finished his freshman year of college, and was looking for a summer job with an ad agency or a TV station. He searched all over Baltimore and couldn’t find anything, but someone at a rock ‘n’ roll station knew someone at NPR’s headquarters in Washington and gave Ira a phone number and said, “They’re kind of a new organization, so call.”
