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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

May 01, 1941

Page

10

National Music Week Observed by Radio Networks

Radio will observe National Music Week for seven days starting Sunday, in its 18th year. Networks plan to devote concert features to the event and NBC will preview with the summer symphony. May 11 NBC broadcast from the Roosevelt home in Hyde Park features Mrs. Roosevelt and Negro artists.

New York NBC Summer Symphony NBC Roosevelt Hyde Park N. Y

A Mother's Run War Poem Attracts Local Comment

Local photographer Fred Barr writes a war poem titled A Mother's Run that denounces the Führer and calls for resistance. The piece portrays mothers and fathers watching their sons drafted as cannon fodder and warns of overrun nations and power lust, ending with a mother’s cost.

Fred Barr Feuhrer Hitler

WQXR Receives Peabody Award for Musical Programs

Station WQXR New York City awarded the George Foster Peabody for high quality musical programming. Also reports rainfall up to 24 hours ending a.m. today and monthly precipitation totals for 1913 to 1939 with averages and year to date values.

WQXR New York City George Foster Peabody Winchester Research Laboratory

Evening Radio Schedule and Quiz Highlights Advertised

A dense radio listings page shows time blocks from 7:00 to 11:45 featuring programs and acts such as Child Health Day proclamations, Barrymore brothers sketches, news bulletins, music from Xavier Cugat and Bing Crosby, Amos n Andy, Glenn Miller, and Rudy Vallee. It closes with audience quiz questions on poetry books and school attendance.

WJSV Amos 'N Andy Lanny Ross Vox Pop Colgate City Major Bowers Glenn Miller Two Cities Bobby Byrnes Esso Edwin C. Hill Orchestra Starlight Kearns Roof Senator C Wayland Brook Matt Bene Lanias Desire Orch

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