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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hitler's Berlin speech was relayed through CBS's Studio 9 last week, a man who looks like a prosperous professor sat at a desk, listening through earphones. Before the hysterical roar at the end of the speech died away, he began to talk into a microphone with clipped, slightly pompous inflections, using facial expressions and gestures as if he were addressing a visible audience. Without pause Hans von Kaltenborn had translated and distilled a 73-minute speech, and for 15 minutes proceeded ex tempore to explain its significance and predict (correctly) its consequences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Combination for Comment | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

Bridge Dedication (Sat. 12:30 p.m. CBS). Ontario's Premier Mitchell Hepburn, Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy jointly dedicate the new Port Huron International Bridge linking Michigan with Ontario...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Oct. 10, 1938 | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

World Series (Sat. and Sun. 1:15 p.m. CBS, MBS, NBC-Red & Blue). The American League's Yankees and National League's Cubs play the third and fourth games of the world-championship series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Oct. 10, 1938 | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

Third Term Debate (Sun. 7 p.m. CBS) by Common Sense Editor Alfred Bingham, Bank Executive Walter A. Williams, a longshoreman, a stenographer; at Lyman Bryson's dinner table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Oct. 10, 1938 | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

Hell on Ice (Sun. 8 p.m. CBS). Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre dramatizes Commander Edward Ellsberg's blood-curdling story of the polar expedition of the Jeannette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Oct. 10, 1938 | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

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