NBC University Theater to Adapt Notable Novels This Summer
The NBC University Theater presents summer dramatizations of well known novels including The Ides of March and Goodbye Mr Chips with Budd Schulberg's What Makes Sammy Run? in the first broadcast. Leading actor, a critic at intermission, and home study courses from three universities accompany the program.
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James Hilton
Chips
NBC University Theater
Budd Schulberg
Sammy
Schulberg
Brighton Rock
Paradise
University Theater
University of Louisville
University of Tulsa
Kansas State Teachers College
Margaret Cuthbert
Wade Arnold
Andrew Love
Albert Harris
Local Radio Schedule Highlights Baseball and Peace Talk
The Reds versus Giants game airs at 1 30 over WAND while Dr Arthur Holly Compton speaks on Atoms Work for Peace at 1 45 over NBC WTAM. WCMW will broadcast the Indians and Red Sox game at 2.
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Family in TV drama during Little Brown Jug on WNBK
An entire family falls under the sway of an evil man during Little Brown Jug on Television Theater at 9. Leueen MacGrath stars in an adaptation of Smoke on Studio One on WEWS at 10. A wrestling match between Walter Palmer and Pierre Lassartes airs on WEWS at 11.
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WNBK
Leueen MacGrath
Ivan Turgenev
Studio One
WEWS
Walter Palmer
Pierre Lassartes
Radio and TV expands for 1940s program lineups
Radio stars sign on for a busy fall with Paul Weston leading a 26 show Naval Reserve series each featuring a guest star. Abe Burrows launches Breakfast With Burrows on CBS July 4 at 9 30 PM with Burrows at the piano. Miss Julia returns to the air as a daytime serial. Ben Alexander emcees The Perfect Husband. Parker Fennelly stars in The Incredible Mr Buchanan, a radio video pairing. A Big Town film adapts for TV in fall. Dennis Day stays with NBC and Jack Benny Show on CBS. Bing Crosby heads to CBS next fall with ABC sponsor shifting to TV. Circus Saints and Sinners TV lunch club set on CBS weekly. Twenty Questions radio program by the Van Deventer family grows to 425 stations, with Fred continuing daily news from New York. The Twenty Questions origin story traces to Deal New Jersey and P Hal Sims. Nancy Van Deventer suggests Animal as a quiz idea.
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Fred Allen
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Deal
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Pacific Coast
Fred
New York
Van Deventer Wins Six Clubs In Bridge Hand
In a bridge club vignette Billy Slater introduces Florence Rinard and Bobby McGuire, now Bobby Van Deventer. Van Deventer wins the opening lead with the jack of clubs and, after a sequence of trumping and club cashing, executes a series of diamond plays to make six clubs, despite defensive cashing by North and South.
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Florence Rinard
Mrs. van Deventer
Bobby McGuire
Bobby van Deventer
van Deventer
World Tour Notebook Ends With Mixed Notes
Billy Rose reviews travels from Paris to Venice and Asia, critiquing tourism, dining tricks, and performance styles. He highlights Venice swindles, dismisses Oriental dancing, and profiles Garry Davis the world citizen hopeful for peace, while noting mixed appeal of global sights.
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China
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Meyer Davis
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Salerno
Know Your Words Quiz and Answers
The questions ask corrections and meanings. Corrected sentence: Say, "He arrived without knowing it." Pronunciation: pi-ka, i as in pie, a as in ask unstressed. Misspelled option: Unkempt. Atrocious means wicked in the highest degree. Word meaning: Adulation means excessive praise.
How Can I Get Rid Of Chiggers And Mold
A reader asks how to eliminate chiggers on lawn bushes and prevent bread mold. Suggestions note sulfur dusting for chiggers and keeping grass trimmed for lawn control, plus storing breads in aired boxes during warm weather to deter mold.
A. P. Coffee Prices Rose by One Cent Penny Rise
New York June 15 AP Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co raised the retail price of all roasted coffee by 1 cent a pound citing higher green coffee costs. Trade sources expect other chain roasters to follow and independent roasters of vacuum packed coffee may also raise prices.
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Dartmouth student wins top analytical geometry prize
Edward L. Glaser a blind 19 year old Dartmouth College sophomore from Glencoe Illinois won a top prize in analytical geometry and calculus aided by his phenomenal memory. Professors said he won the prize in competition with normal students and Glaser told a proctor what to write after questions were read to him.
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Four Luncheon Victims Released From Akron Hospital
Four of twenty socially prominent Akron women who fell ill at a Woman's City Club luncheon have been discharged from a local hospital. Sixteen remain in fair condition. Akron health official Charles McDonald traced the illness to turkey salad served at the birthday luncheon, noting no one is in danger.
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Television schedule highlights for WNBK Wednesday
A cluttered listing shows WNBK's Wednesday lineup with racing at 4:00, then a mix of program previews, children shows like Howdy Doody and Lucky Pup, news, features, and evening films. Notable items include The Black Robe, Paradise Island, Studio One, and wrestling at 0:00 alongside several entertainment and variety segments.
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