Best broadcasts of 1938-39 (1939)

Record Details:

Title:
Best broadcasts of 1938-39
Date:
1939
Publisher:
New York : Whittlesey House
Volume:
Best broadcasts of 1938-39
Leaf #:
000528
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound and Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
May 30, 2024
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BEST BROADCASTS OF 1938-39 How neatly your narrator is dispensed with. Come, take it from me, you who stand near by; Speak on, of us and radio. {Pause) Narrator. — It’s taken and we speak. Let’s start by setting forth That it is good to take a swig of fancy every now and then, A nip or two of wonderment. To jag the mind. It’s good to send your thoughts excursioning Beyond the paved and well-worn alleys of your life If only as a form of exercise. Especially in wanton days like these. The fashion now’s to wonder on such things As whether London phrases will displease Berlin, Or how the Romans will react To the reaction of the French, And who’s the enemy of whom. And has he guns enough to run a war for more than thirty days ? At times like these, when headlines blaze their blackest. And the heavens crackle with short-waved details Of Peace’s latest coma, There’s little fitness for the luxury Of contemplations on the majesty of man. And yet it serves a momentary antidote for toxins of the soul To think away from crises; To think that even for man’s monkeying with mania and murder. He’s still a noble article. Bound round by marvels of aU manner. Do you remember what it was that Whitman said About the miracles ? Come in, Walt Whitman, and refresh our memories. Come in, and bring with you a snatch of music of the spheres. 504