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Hill 6:45 NBC-Blue: Lowell Thomas 7:00 CBS: Amos *n' Andy 7:00 l'.< I'.lu. Easy Aces 7:00j NBC-Red: Fred Waring's Gang 7:15 NBC-Blue: Mr. Keen 7:15 NBC-Red: I Love a Mystery 7:30 CBS: Vox Pop 7:30 NBC-Blue: One of the Finest 8:00 CBS: Ask it Basket 8:00 NBC-Red: One Man's Family 8:30 CBS: Strange as it Seems 8:30 NBC-Hlue: Joe Penner 8:30 NBC-Red: Those We Love 9:00'(BS: MAJOR BOWES 9:00 NBC-Blue: Rochester Philharmonic NBC-Ked: GOOD NEWS 9:00 9:30 NBC-Blue:"AMERICA'S TOWN MEETING 10:00 MBS: Raymond Gram Swing 10:00 NBC-Red: KRAFT MUSIC HALL 10:30 CBS: Americans at Work ■ One of the Town Meeting's audience rises to ask a question. Tune-In Bulletin for November 30, December 7, 14 and 21! November 30: In some states this is still Thanksgiving Day, so the networks are playing no favorites — they are broadcasting Thanksgiving programs. . . . Mutual, for instance, has some special holiday music by Henry Weber on the Concert Revue program at 10:30 P. M., E. S. T. . . . Mutual's Inside of Sports program at 7:45 tells the story of Lucky Baldwin, founder of the Santa Anita race track. . . . The School of the Air this morning tells a story: Look See with Uncle Bill, by Will James. December 7: With a whoop and a holler, Bob Burns returns tonight to the Bing Crosby's Kraft Music Hall, NBC-Red at 10:00 — and no doubt he has some new tall stories to tell. . . . Larry Clinton's band opens at the Meadowbrook Country Club, broadcasting over NBC. December 14: The secrets of a private detective are to be revealed on Americans at Work tonight. . . . And the School of the Air story is a Christmas one — The Poor Count's Christmas, by Frank L. Stockton. December 21: For some good music, tune in the Rochester orchestra, NBC-Blue at 9. ON THE AIR TONIGHT: America's Town Meeting of the Air, on NBC-Blue at 9:30. Here is a program that would shock the citizens of almost any other country in the world but the United States. They wouldn't believe it possible to put on an hour of discussion on vital questions in which nobody was censored or was afraid to speak his mind. They wouldn't understand how a working journalist could be allowed to argue in public with a cabinet minister of the American government — Madame Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins; or how an average citizen could appear on the same platform to oppose the President's wife. There are things about America's Town Meeting that even experienced radio men in this country don't understand. Up to its first broadcast, in May, 1935, radio program men insisted that an hour's discussion of political problems was too dry and high-brow for the listening audience. They added that even if a few men might listen to it, no woman ever would, because women didn't understand or enjoy politics. So the first Town Meeting broadcast went on the air — and by the following Monday 3,000 fan letters had come in, most of them from women. Women are still in the majority of those who write in. You only hear half of the Town Meeting program, because it really begins at 8:30, a whole hour before it goes on the air. Led by Dr. Arthur E. Bestor, President of Chautauqua and chairman of the Town Hall Board of Trustees, the discussion of the evening's question gets under way. For this first hour, there aren't any scheduled speakers — people just stand up in the audience and tell what they think. At 9:30 the broadcast starts, and George V. Denny takes over the job of being moderator from Dr. Bestor. The scheduled speakers are given a certain amount of time to make their points; then a sign on the manuscript-stand in front of them flashes, and they know it's time to stop and let the opposing speaker have his say. This more or less formal debate goes on until 10:00, and then once more the people in the audience are invited to ask the speakers questions. Now comes the really hot part of the evening, with the speakers having to think up answers to embarrassing questions shot at them from all parts of the auditorium. Only twice has any one in the audience lost his temper in the heat of argument. Each time some one called the speaker a liar, and had to be asked to leave. Both times the offending member of the audience felt sorry afterwards and apologized. 46 SAY HELLO TO . . . PATTY CONLEY — the winner of a contest sponsored by the Chicago Boys Clubs, and at present the lad who plays the role of Spottie in Scattergood Baines, this afternoon at 5:45, E. S. T., on CBS. Every boys' club in Chicago entered someone in the contest, which required boys to write, act in, and produce a radio script — and even build their own sound equipment. Patty was the winner, the committee of judges decided. He's thirteen years old, one of a family of thirteen children from Chicago's South Side, and has never until now had any formal dramatic training. Even without it, he usually steals the show. RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRROR