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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1942
Page
2
Ensign Francis Pinter of the United States Navy will be interviewed on the Lone Ranger broadcast Monday at 6 30 p m over KXEL. He saved seventeen lives in the North Atlantic by bringing a PBY flying boat down in rough seas and rescuing sixteen men and one woman from a life raft before delivering them to safety.
A dense, fragmented listing of radio programs across stations WMT, WGN, KXEL, and others for a day in 1942. Includes show titles such as Lone Ranger, Lum & Abner, My Favorites, and War coverage. Mentions news bulletins, concerts, music programs, and military updates with various host names and time slots.
Washington dispatch notes Eleanor Roosevelt will omit weather remarks from her daily column after censorship rules object to weather openings. She states she will not tell readers if it rains or shines where she is, but may mention temperature conditions.
New York AP reports Nat Cohn of Capitol Records touts a shellac free process. George H. Clark, a New Jersey inventor, claims a secret method enables durable records that resist juke box wear and breakage.
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