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Mother's Day (Sun. 3 p.m., Mutual). A special program featuring Ethel Barrymore, Loretta Young, Ruth Hussey, Irene Dunne, Rosalind Russell (who are mothers), and Don Ameche, George Murphy, Charles Boyer, Pat O'Brien, Bing Crosby, Margaret O'Brien...
Fred Allen (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Guest: Bing Crosby...
...Bing Crosby Show (Wed. 10 p.m., ABC). Guests: Groucho Marx, Hank Greenberg...
Decca last week released its most ambitious project in Americana. In Our Common Heritage (16 sides, $10) Bing Crosby, Walter Huston, Fredric March, Pat O'Brien, Brian Donlevy and Agnes Moorehead recite (with background music) American poems and anthems that mark milestones of U.S. history. Best of the lot: Walter Huston's recitation of Vachel Lindsay's Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight and Agnes Moorehead's reading of Rosemary Benet's Nancy Hanks...
Transcribed shows had Big Radio-NBC and CBS-worried. Big Radio's power has always rested chiefly on its near-monopoly of famous entertainers. Last fall, Bing Crosby fled the fold. He recorded his weekly show, sold it to 208 ABC stations-and over the head of at least one big network to some of its member stations. Total Crosby stations: 400. The advantages: Bing can record the show any time he likes, can edit it before it reaches the air. If other big names followed Bing's lead, the big networks might lose control of their affiliates...