Best broadcasts of 1939-40 (1940)

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Best Broadcasts of 1939-40 [• / SELECTED AND EDITED BY MAX WYLIE Director of Script and Continuity Columbia Broadcasting System; Editor, Best Broadcasts of 1938-39 rHis is the second anthology bring¬ ing together a year’s crop of he outstanding scripts in all fields if radio broadcasting. Like Best Broadcasts of 1938-39, this new volime is not only valuable to everyone uofessionally interested in radio, but ilso contains a great deal of highly njoyable reading. As in the previous volume, the cripts this year have great interest ;nd variety of appeal. Emphasis s on comedy programs, news broad:asts, and radio drama. Comedy cripts include outstanding programs rom Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Burns ind Allen, Bob Hope, and the Aldrich ramily. Among the news broadcasts ire the historic account by William ... Shirer of the signing of the irmistice in the old railroad car at Ympiegne, and the dramatic eye continued on back flap )