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All time is Eastern Standard 8:00 A. M. NBC-Blue: Southernaires NBC-Bed: Malcolm Claire 8:15 NBC-Blue: Dick Leibert NBC-Bed: Hi Boys 9:00 CHS: Roy Block NBC-Blue: Breakfast Club NBC-Bed: The Wise Man 9:15 NBC-Bed: Sunshine Express 9:30 CBS: Fiddlers Fancy MBS: Journal ot Living 9:45 NBC-Bed: Landt Trio 10:00 CBS: Fred Feibel NBC-Blue: Breen and De Rose NBC-Bed: Amanda Snow 10:15 NBC-Blue: Viennese Ensemble NBC-Bed: Charioteers 10:30 CBS: Jewel Cowboys NBC-Blue: The Child Grows Up NBC-Bed: Manhatters II :00 CBS:. Symphony Concert NBC-Bed: Florence Hale Forum 11:15 NBC-Blue: Minute Men NBC-Red: Musical Tete-a-Tete 11:30 NBC-Blue: Our Barn NBC-Red: Music and Youth 12:00 Noon NBC-Blue: Call to Youth NBC-Bed: Abram Chasins 12:30 CBS: George Hall Orch. NBC-Blue: Farm and Home Hour NBC-Red: Lani Mclntire Orch. 1:00 NBC -Red: Emery Deutsch 1:30 CBS: Buffalo Presents NBC-Blue: Club Matinee 1:55 NBC-Blue: Metropolitan Opera 2:00 CBS: Madison Ensemble NBC-Red: Jimmy Dorsey Orch. 2:30 CBS: Motor City Melodies NBC-Red: Your Host is Buffalo 3:00 NBC-Red: Golden Melodies 3:30 NBC-Red: Bill Krenz Orch. 4:45 CBS: Four Clubmen 5:00 CBS: Story of Industry 5:30 NBC-Red: Stamp Collectors 5:45 NBC-Red: Al Johns Orch. 6:00 CBS: Chorus Quest 6:05 NBC-Blue: Weber's Orch. NBC-Red: El Chico Revue 6:30 CBS: Syncopation Piece NBC: Press-Radio News 6:35 NBC-Blue: Harold Nagel Orch. NBC-Bed: Sports Question Box 6:45 NBC-Blue: Johnny O'Brien Orch. NBC-Red: Religion in The News 7:00 CBS: Saturday Swing Session NBC-Blue: Message of Israel NBC-Red: Kaltenmeyer's Kindergarten 7:30 NBC-Blue: Uncle Jim's Question Bee NBC-Red: Alistair Cooke 7:45 NBC-Red: Jean Sablon CBS: Columbia Workshop NBC-Red: Robert Ripley 8:30 CBS: Johnny Presents NBC-Blue: Spelling Bee NBC-Bed: Jack Haley 9:00 CBS: Professor Quiz NBC Blue: National Barn Danco NBC-Red: Al Roth Orch. 9:30 CHS: Your Pet Program NBC Red: American Portraits 10:00 CBS: Your Hit Parade NBC: NBC Symphony 11:00 CBS: Dance Music Motto of the Day By Wendy Barrie Don't ever expect to convince others of something you don't believeyourself !igh£ights For Saturday, Feb. 26 ACCORDING to the schedule, to"^^ night ought to be your last chance to listen to Arturo Toscanini direct the NBC Symphony Orchestra, but your Almanac wouldn't be so brash as to say that it actually will be. . . . There have been rumors flying around thick and fast that the unpredictable Mr. T. will stay on for a while. After all, he's been having a much better time than he expected, even going so far as to smile at his audiences sometimes, and if NBC has the best interests of its listeners at heart, it won't kick up a fuss if he decides to stick around for another week or two. . . . But the rumors are just rumors, and will probably remain so until the last minute. . . . Novelty-seekers look forward to day to NBC's broadcast from Santiago, Chile, at 6:15 P. M., E.S.T. Dr. Roland Hall Sharp, who does the talking on these special broadcasts from different South American countries, is a noted writer and world traveler. He broadcasts from his stop-overs on a twenty-thousand mile flying jaunt from Boston through the continent to the south cf us. Besides telling what he sees on the trip, he interviews the presidents — and maybe the dictators — of the South American countries on the air. . . . CBS has a special event too — Bryan Field's description of the classic $20,000 Added Flamingo Stakes (it's a horse-race) from Hialeah Park, in Miami, Florida. The time is from 4:15 to 4:45 P.M., E.S.T. Bryan Field describes the Flamingo Stakes race at Hialeah Park today at 6:15 on CBS. Highlights For Saturday, March 5 Ella Fitzgerald, blues singer, is on the air late tonight over the Columbia network. TF you go for the smell of the turf and the thunder of pounding hoofs, then this is your day to glue your ear to the loudspeaker — unless, of course, you're lucky enough to be at a track in person. CBS has two horse-races of major importance scheduled for broadcast — the Widener Cup, with $50,000 added stakes, from 4:15 to 4:45; and the Santa Anita Handicap, for a purse of $100,000, from 7:00 to 7:30 — both times E.S.T. Joe Hermandez and Harry Breckner describe the Santa Anita event, and Bryan Field takes care of the Widener Cup in his usual efficient manner. Most important of all. War Admiral is scheduled to run in the Widener Cup event. Bryan Field, incidentally, is CBS's most expert judge of horseflesh and racing authority, and he used to be known as Thomas Bryan George. . . . Chick Webb and Ella Fitzgerald, colored bandleader and singer, are closing their engagement at the Lavaggis Restaurant in Boston tonight, and you'd better listen in — on CBS, late tonight — while you can. For swingsters, Chick and Ella are musts. Chick is the composer of many a hit tune — "Stompin' at the Savoy" is probably his most famous — and Ella, whom he discovered in a Harlem Amateur Night show, is a blues singer who is really outstanding. Benny Goodman, it's said, would like to have her with his band, but she's loyal to her discoverer. Highlights For Saturday, March 12 TWTADISON SQUARE GARDEN in New York City is the scene today of the annual Knights of Columbus track meet. It goes on all day — or most of it, anyway — and CBS is planning to pick up reports of the proceedings every now and then, whenever it isn't too busy broadcasting something else. . . . Has it ever occurred to you that if you want to you can listen to no less than six and a quarter hours of classical music on a Saturday like today? An hour from 11:00 A.M. to noon, when the New York Philharmonic gives its children's concert over CBS. . . . Three hours from 2:00 to 5:00, when the Metropolitan Opera Company broadcasts over NBC-Blue. . . . Three-quarters of an hour from 9:15 to 10:00, while the Chicago Symphony Orchestra plays over Mutual. . . . And an hour and a half from 10:00 to 11:30 (or later), when you hear the NBC Orchestra over both NBC networks. . . . You probably take this rich store of music very indifferently, without stopping to think that your great-grandparents would have traveled miles to listen to music that wasn't one-tenth as good. . . . Alistair Cooke, who does a fifteen-minute broadcast tonight at 7:30 on NBC-Red, commenting on things that interest him, is a graduate of England's Cambridge University. His broadcast movie criticisms have a way of being so sharp that the film companies are up in arms about him. Alistair Cooke, English by birth and American by adoption, is on NBC at 7:30. Highlights For Saturday, March 19 Father Arthur Hutchison t ak es part in today's strangest and weirdest broadcast. AS a rule your Almanac is pretty cautious and doesn't announce a broadcast or guest stars for a certain date until practically everybody concerned has solemnly sworn that the broadcast or the guests will go on the air as promised. But here's one case in which we're throwing caution to the winds, and telling you that today NBC is to broadcast the arrival of the famous mystery swallows at the San Juan Capistrano Mission in California. Nobody has promised us that the swallows will be there — but they haven't missed in seventy years, and that's good enough for your Almanac. As regularly as clockwork, for that length of time, the swallows have flown to San Juan Capistrano from the tropic islands they use for winter refuge, always coming on St. Joseph's Day (which is March 19) and leaving again on St. John's Day (October 23). Nobody knows what calendar the swallows use, but even Leap Year doesn't fool them. . . . NBC, also trusting :n vhe swallows' good faith, has a microphone all set up ready to bring you a firsthand report of Moving Day Among Our Feathered Friends. . . . The Day of the Swallows attracts many tourists to the mission — many of whom pick that day to ask Father Arthur Hutchinson to perform wedding ceremonies for them. . . . Today's is the last regular broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera's winter season, although there may be a short spring season. 52