Gershwin Life Brought to Radio Tonight From Tin Pan Alley to Carnegie Hall
A slate of radio programs airs tonight across Mutual WGN and local CBS station. George Gershwin’s life is dramatized with his early NYC piano days highlighted and the Rhapsody in Blue creation described. Also tonight a welterweight bout Perry versus Daniels at Madison Square Garden airs on WGN with Don Dunphy and Bill Corum. other shows feature Mil dred Bailey Rockin Chair Lady, Coleman Hawkins, Mrs. Lawrence Smith talk via WMT, Jimmy Durante Garry Moore, Abe Lyman, Frank Munn, Evelyn MacGregor, Stage Door Canteen with Miriam Hopkins and Victor Jory, Diana Lynn on Ruggles, and war workers on Double or Nothing.
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George Gershwin
Mutual
WGN
New York
Gershhwin
Tin Pan Alley
Carnegie Hall
Gershwin
Paul Whiteman
America
Aaron Perry
Jimmy McDaniels
Madison Square Garden
Don Dunphy
Bill Corum
Perry
The
Boxing Commission
Abe Lyman
Frank Munn
Evelyn
MacGregor
Miriam Hopkins
Victor Jory
Stage Door
WMT
Broadway Night Schedule Headlines and Air Time List
A dense list of radio program airings across stations WMT WHO WGN KXEL and others with a mix of music talk and variety shows. Entries include Frank Black Charlie Ruggles Waltz Time Double or Nothing and Navy Board to Front plus news updates From 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. and later listings for 3 p.m. 4 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. schedules.
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WMT
Frank Black
WHO
Charlie Ruggles
Wees
WGN
Meet Your Navy
KXEL
Moore-Durante
R. Hughes Winn New Kxel i Heldt
Ft. Sheridan
Yowao Aenes
London News
WGN Plano
Ander
Casey
Press
WHO Your
America
Navy Board
Wae Street
L. Murray O
Dixon
Curt Massey
WGN Hawaii
WMT World Today
Angeles
Gees Brown
GN Melodies
Nick Carter
WGN Homemaker
Wne
Sweeney
WGN Ortunit
Trussel
WRO
Lewis
Gross
Chicago
Nish
WGN Front
Radio Schedule Highlights for August 10 1944
A detailed hour by hour listing of programs across WMT WGN WHO XEL and KXEL stations for Friday and Saturday. It includes shows like Breakfast Club News Story of Wool and Adventures and notes morning and afternoon time blocks with musical variety drama and news segments. It preserves station names program titles and approximate times for reference.
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WitAa
CNBC
WGN
MBB
WE. Who
NBC
WMT
Meldiers
Ek Land
Wits
Grant
Gross
Owen Cowhers
Shelley
Lopez O
KXEL
Vba
Aya Johnson
Better Farms
WGN Plano
Ander
McIntire O
WGN Ginsbureh
Red Cross
Mus
Caen Civilian Toll Reported At 7,900 By Congressman
Congressman Hugh D. Scott Jr. said Allied shelling of Caen, a 60,000 resident city, killed 7,500 French civilians after a first barrage killed 2,500. He added that fleeing civilians returning to the countryside were struck by a second blast killing 5,000 more. Scott and Gordon Canfield traveled incognito.
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Washington
Normandy
Caen
Hugh D. Scott, Jr
Philadelphia
Scott
Gordon Canfield
N.J
Atlantic
Special Committee to Probe Campaign Expenditures
The House will start a probe next Monday into political spending led by Rep. Anderson. Sidney Hillman of the CIO PAC and national party chairs Herbert Brownell Jr. and Robert E. Hannegan are among those invited to testify.
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Washington
House
Sidney B. Hillman
CIO
Political Action Committee
Congress
Rep. Anderson
D-N.m
Hillman
Herbert Brownell, Jr
Robert EB. Hannegan
Charles A. Halleck
Patrick Henry Drewry
Bulgaria Seeks End to Bloodshed and War
Premier Ivan Bagrianoff told an extraordinary sobranje session that Bulgaria does not want to shed blood and condemned the former government for going to war without public consent. He promised to halt Jewish persecutions and noted rumors of Bulgaria cooling toward the Axis with German withdrawals.
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Ankara
Ivan Bagrianoff
Bogdan Filoff
Baghanoff
Bulgaria
Balkans
Nazi-Hired Spies Executed in Italy
Rome reports 16 German-hired Italian spies executed with many more sentenced to death. Since June over 100 enemy agents have been arrested in Rome, with trials and hearings soon. Allies warn Italians with spy links to surrender now. those who surrendered remain alive.
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Rome
Notice of Hearing on Forfeiture in Linn County Iowa
The District Court of Iowa Linn County hears forfeiture of a 1941 Chevrolet coach missing clear details. The hearing is set for September 18, 1944 at Cedar Rapids Court House. The response must show cause why the automobile should not be forfeited per the information on file. James H. Smith, Sheriff.
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District Court of Iowa
Linn County
State of Iowa
Walter Ernest Stydel
Verona Ydel
Towlt
Linn
State of
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
District Court
Vichy Officials Flee to Berlin as Maquis Attack Across France
Swiss reports say most Vichy ministers fled to Berlin while 5,000 mobile guards protect Laval-Petain capital. Maquis resistance derails trains and disrupts German lines. French patriots and Allied forces push back along the front with strikes and garrison surrenders.
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London
Berlin
Laval- Petain
France
der Bund
Bern
Switzerland
Vichy
Pierre Laval
Henri Petain
Joseph Koenig
Interior
Toulouse- Orleans
Montlucon-Bourges
Brieve
Lausanne
Maqui
Fort de L’ecluse
Ain
Charles de Gaulle
Montbeliard
Basel
Twelve Soldiers And Two Civilians Overcome At Fire
In Granite City Illinois during a fire at the U S Army Engineers depot twelve soldiers and two civilians were overcome by smoke. The warehouse storing crated machinery parts burned and the depot’s four million square feet of storage space was threatened. More than 20 explosions were blamed on oxygen chlorine and ammonia tanks. The machinery was valued in the thousands of dollars. The cause remained undetermined.
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Granite City
Ill
U. S. Army Engineers Depot
B. F. Goodall
Mississippi River
Decorah Pilot Leonard Matter Reported Missing in Germany Raid
Lt. Leonard Matter, a B-24 bomber pilot from Decorah, is listed missing since August 3 during a raid over Germany. His parents, Mr and Mrs John Matter, were notified by the war department. Matter's wife, Carol Jean Simonson, lives in Calmar.
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Decorah
Leonard Matter
Germany
John Matter
War Department
Matter
Carol Jean Simonson
Calmar
City Council Acts on Resignations Permits and Purchases
The city council accepted Virgil Woodford’s fire department resignation effective Aug 26. It authorized purchase of a cutback car for public improvements. It allowed the Women’s Relief Corps to hold its semiannual telephone extract sale. A $75 refund was granted on a cigaret permit surrendered by Effie Lindsay at 201 F Avenue NW, with a new permit issued to Richard L. Kephart for the same address. Iowa Electric Light and Power Co was granted permission to lay a line.
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Virgil Woodford
Fire Department
Public Improvements Department
Council
The
Women’s Relief Corps
Effie Lindsay
F Avenue NW
Richard L. Kephart
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Main Street Team Location and Reach Described
The text outlines a route along Eighth Street SE from the alley between Third and Fourth avenues to Sixth Avenue, continuing to Mercy Hospital. It notes 963 feet of frontage and an additional segment of 200 feet on Fourteenth Street SE between First and Second Avenues.
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Team Main
Eighth Street
Third
Fourth Avenues
Sixth Avenue
Mercy Hospital
Fourteenth Street
First
Second Avenues
Dewey Plans Two Major Talks in Albany Speech
Gov Thomas E Dewey announced on Thursday night that he will deliver two major talks in Albany as he remains at odds with the national administration over arms of the Washington four power security conference.
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Albany
Thomas E. Dewey
National Administration
Dewey to Launch Speeches in Philadelphia and Louisville
In Ville Kentucky on September 8 the Republican nominee may start a broader speaking tour in two uncertain states. James C. Hagerty noted another speech might precede the Philadelphia engagement at Convention Hall where he once lost the nomination. Dewey’s Philadelphia address will be broadcast nationwide along with the Louisville speech.
Bricker to Open Speaking Campaign in Indiana
Gov John W Bricker of Ohio will start his speaking campaign at French Lick Indiana on September 9 addressing the Indiana Republican Editorial Association. Hagerty noted the Albany decision on the term has not been determined.
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Albany
Hagerty
Dewey
John W. Bricker
Ohio
French Lick
Ind
Indiana Republican Editorial Association
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Mildred Bailey
CBS
WBBM
Coleman Hawkins
Man
American Legion Auxiliary
Lawrence Smith
Racine
Wis
Radio Council
Jimmy Durante
Durante
Garry Moore
Garry
Diana Lynn
Heert
WMT Amn
Melody Who Music Room
Nancy Martin
WMT Music
Exel Aus
Mary Miles
Vic
Gardens
Dick Baker
Allen Roth
Yen Fanilo Hurst
St. John
Kxel Melodies
WMTG
Dreier Xel Viet
EXEL
Bille
Burke
WNO
Melody
Wren
Brewster Boy
Dreler
Moore-D'rante
Boston
Godwin
Ted Malone
Blondie
Holbor
WHO Farm
Zelda Jam
WGN Reveille
Happy Halne
Shelley GN
Reveille
XEL
Marla Firearms Co
Italy
James H. Smith
UNONT
Alhapids
Lichty
Ste. Maxime
Cannes
Morocco
Maritime
Alps
Lt. Matter
City Hall
Davis
Second Avenue
Merle E. Garmoe
Third Street
Smulekoff
Chifrobe
Smalekoff
Rocker
Thayer
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