Best broadcasts of 1939-40 (1940)

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Copyright, 1940, hy the McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. “My Client, Curley," copyright, 1940, by the Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. “In the Fog,” copyright, 1939, by Milton E. M. Geiger. “The Dark Valley,” copyright, 1940, by the Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. “For Richer — For Richer,” copyright, 1939, by True Boardman and reprinted by special arrangement with the International Silver Company. “This Lonely Heart,” based upon “Beloved Friend: The Story of Tschaikowsky and Nadejda von Meek,” by Catherine Drinker Bowen and Barbara von Meek, published and copyrighted, 1937, by Random House, Inc. “The Clinic,” copyright, 1940, by the National Broadcasting Company, Inc. Fred Allen material, copyright, 1940, by Fred Allen. Burns and Allen program, copyright, 1939, by George Burns. Bob Hope program, copyright, 1940, by Bob Hope and reprinted by special arrangement with the Pepsodent Company. The Aldrich Family, copyright, 1940, by Clifford Goldsmith. The Pursuit of Happiness, copyright, 1940, by the Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. Meet Mr. Weeks, copyright, 1940, by the National Broadcast¬ ing Company, Inc. Ruth Gordon’s diary material included in program Meet Mr. Weeks, copyright, 1939, by the Atlantic Monthly. Excerpts from “The Journal of Arnold Bennett, 1896-1928” included in program Meet Mr. Weeks, copyright, 1932, 1933, by Viking Press, Inc., New York. “The Human Adventure,” copyright, 1940, by the Columbia Broadcasting Sys¬ tem, Inc., and reprinted by special arrangement with the University of Chicago. The Lone Ranger, copyright, 1940, by The Lone Ranger, Inc. Pepper Young’s Family, copyright, 1939, by the National Broadcasting Company, Inc. Material of Major George Fielding Eliot, Elmer Davis, Edward R. Murrow, and William L. Shirer, copyright, 1939, 1940, by the Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. Material of Wythe Williams, copy¬ right, 1940, by Wythe Williams and reprinted by arrangement with Mutual Broadcasting System. Material of Raymond Gram Swing, copyright, 1940, by Raymond Gram Swing. “The Graf Spee,” copyright, 1939, by the National Broadcasting Company, Inc. Material on the Belmont Stakes, copyright, 1940, by the Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. Notice: This book is copyrighted, and no part or section thereof may be reprinted, rebroadcast, or performed for any purpose whatever by any per¬ son without permission of the copyright owners. PUBLISHED BY WHITTLESEY HOUSE A Division of the McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. Printed in the United States of America hy the Maple Press Co., York, Pa.