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BEST BROADCASTS OF 1938-39
Sound. — Transmission and static crackle surges . . . hold for 30 seconds.
Announcer. — One moment now: well try to take you.
Sound. — Continues for 15 seconds . . . continues background.
Announcer. — The ultimatum, you remember, was for sunrise by their clock:
Midnight by ours ! Now ours is long past midnight. The sun is up on the whole curve of that continent.
Sound. — Fades out.
Announcer. — The weather is fair, with winds southwest going southerly:
A few clouds at ten thousand . . . ciimulus: Mists among the passes of the upper Jidian Alps : Some fog on the east Baltic, but lifting: Otherwise sun: the Tyrrhenian Sea all sunshine: The Adriatic creased with curling light:
The Atlantic tumbles forward into morning on those beaches:
The whole continent lolls in summer stinlight: Spain is drifting eastward with the shapes of clouds :
France is smooth with morning like a turf: Germany is checkered with the squares of green and grain:
The visibility is perfect. . . .
You think you hear the lonely droning danger of the planes. . . .
You don’t, though. . . .
Not yet. . . .
Sound. — Transmission and static cuts in 15 seconds.
Announcer. — One moment now: we’ll take you through:
Sound. — Continues 10 seconds . . . then fade to background.
Announcer. — We take you to a town behind the border . . .
One of those old-time hill towns where the papers Come tomorrow morning and the wars Come years ago or in some other country:
The planes will come, though ... if they come at all:
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