World & Nation
Tom Magliozzi, one half of the dynamic, wisecracking duo that hosted NPR’s “Car Talk” for 35 years, died Monday morning of complications of Alzheimer’s disease, according to NPR and a statement posted on the show’s website.
Nov. 3, 2014
Television
Tom Magliozzi, who died Monday at age 77, was for 25 years the co-host with his younger brother Ray of the NPR series “Car Talk”; a local Boston version had run on the public radio station WBUR for a decade before that.
Obituaries
An imposing, gray-bearded figure with the fiery look of an Old Testament prophet, Tom Magliozzi took car problems as seriously as he took himself.
Entertainment & Arts
Hosts put the brakes on NPR’s ‘Car Talk’
June 9, 2012
Music
Moments before they were scheduled to go on the air at the studios of WBUR-FM here, Tom and Ray Magliozzi were sitting at a conference table, poring over the latest truckload of mail.
March 17, 1990
Autos
--When their do-it-yourself car-repair shop was a bust, the Magliozzi brothers started a radio talk show that is loved even by people who own nothing faster than a bicycle.
July 7, 1986
‘Car Talk’s’ last lap: Click and Clack to retire; fans mourn
June 8, 2012
Click and Clack exit; ‘Car Talk’ ending live NPR show after 25 years
‘Car Talk’ hosts’ radio success did not translate to TV
Travel & Experiences
Jetting home from a too-short trip to New York City, we were shocked to read in an airline magazine that Americans get the shaft when it comes to vacation days.
Nov. 30, 1999