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CONTENTS/^ SUMMER, 1932
COVER PORTRAIT. Charming Hazel fohnson of KFYR, Bismarck, N. D., winner of Radio Digest Crown.
JEAN REMOVES HER MASK.
Beautiful singer on Ziegfeld program tells how she banished stage fright.
ROUND TOWNERS. Quartet of male vocalists sings familiar ballads.
"I'LL SHOW THEM." That's what Bob Simmons said to old Missouri.
PERKINSCRIBIA. Fair correspondents write inspired letters to Perkins.
FAREWELL TO HELENE. Two
Troupers split, and one goes to KFI. She writes ship log for her radio pal.
THEY'RE NOT SO DUMB! Interview goes askew with Burns and Allen.
TELLERS WHO. Another double page of announcers for your album.
BROKEN VOWS. John Barleycorn not always legal angle for damages.
TUNEFUL TOPICS. New songs are reviewed by our most popular critic.
EDITORIAL. It's time to revamp program production. Listeners vote.
"I WOULD NEVER SELL MY TITLE." Says Countess Olga Albani.
EATATORIALS. Famous restaurateur tells of adventures in Germany.
POLICE! Noted war correspondent puts crime on radio spot.
STATION PARADE. Gossip from the local stations across the continent.
BLUE RIBBON SELECTIONS.
Daily log of programs for summer.
Charles Sheldon
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Hilda Cole 6
Marshal Taylor 8
Nellie Revell 10
Edward T. Ingle 12
Helene Handin 14
Leonard S. Smith 16
Nellie Revell 18
Gleason L. Archer 20
Rudy Vallee 24
Ray Bill 28
Wanda Seifried 29
George Rector 30
D. Thomas Curtin 31
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Radio Digest. /volume XXIX, No. 2. Summer, 1932. Published monthly ten months of the year and bi-monthly In July and August, By Radio Digest Publishing Corporation, 42 0 Lexington Ave., New York, N. Y. Subscription rates yearly, {1.50 in U./S. A.; Foreign, $3.00: Canada, $2.25; single copies, fifteen cents. Entered as second-class matter Nov. 18, 1930, at tlCc post office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Title Reg. U. S. Patent Office and Canada. l'op.vrlght/l93 2, by Radio Digest Publishing Corporation. n All rights reserved. President. Raymond Bill; Vice-President. .!. B. Splllane, Randolph Brown, C. R. Tighe; Treaaurer, Edward Lyman Bill; Secretary, L. J. Tompkins. Published In association with Edward Lyman Bill, Inc., and Federated Publications, Inc.