Best broadcasts of 1939-40 (1940)

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PREFACE but on the whole I have tried to simplify the reader’s prob¬ lem by setting before him the broad field of radio activity in its entirety and not confusing him with discrete snatches of this and that. Last year’s book was more instructive than entertaining, and I deliberately put it together that way. This year I hope the reverse is true. It is a hard year for everyone, and it is going to be worse. Empires have subsided overnight; friends have betrayed one another and themselves; every¬ body is telling lies. There is not much to cling to in the world. In these moments and in these months our own country, of all those still remaining afloat, is blessed and sustained by the truth that we may read every day in our press and hear every hour on our radios. Moreover, these two great forces of public information in America are reflecting another side of our vast and incorporated life together — the American sense of humor. It is robust and joyous, occa¬ sionally vulgar, but always full-throated — qualities that in themselves describe us as well as any others I can think of. No race is lost that can still laugh together at itself. Max Wylie. xi