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...Reader Miller is quite right. TIME misinterpreted the figures it used. On the basis of two samplings made in July, C.A.B. got a "median rating" for evening half-hour programs of 6.2%-that is, the average program in that category reached between six and seven radio homes out of 100. This was not, as TIME said, a low point since 1930 but simply a summer low for 1941. High for 1941: 12.4%, in February...
...This half-hour mock air raid furnished the wow-at-the-finish of the Fifth Annual Police Show last week in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. It also scared the whey out of the 50,000-odd New Yorkers who bought tickets to it. The cast consisted of more than 700 New York cops and units from the city's new corps of 100,000 air-raid wardens. Sound effects were rebroadcast British recordings of one of last September's air blitzes, described by the excited cop announcer as "the London terrible bombings...
Aviation Cadet Vinson Wieser was lost on a cross-country night flight. He had only a half-hour of gasoline in his tanks. He headed his plane for the brightest spot he could...
...Laurence Stallings' and Maxwell Anderson's What Price Glory? This time, in the guise of burly, hard-voiced Edmund Lowe and hulking, grim-visaged Victor McLaglen (who enacted the cinema roles), they appear not in the old story, but in a new radio serial, a brisk, jaunty half-hour show on NBC's network (Sunday 7:30 p.m. E.S.T...
...reached the side alley that went down to the stage door, where he was assaulted by a host of theatre friends and colored shoe-shine boys. Passing through them with hurried, friendly greetings, he answered one more question before going up to his dressingroom in time for the half-hour curtain call. When asked whether or not he considered Harvard tolerant to the colored race, he insisted...