VARIETY OF PROGRAMS

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, January 8, 1994

KRAFT MUSIC HALL (1-16-44) Bing Crosby welcomes guests William Frawley and Nan Wynn.  Time Marches Back to 1930.

WORLD NEWS TODAY (1-9-44) Douglas Edwards and CBS newsmen with WW II reports.  “The Allied Fifth Army in Italy has thrown back German counter-attacks and has cut deeper into the enemy defense lines around Cassino, the strategic town guarding the road to Rome.

SPEAKING OF RADIO (8-23-72) Paying tribute to actor Cesar Romero, who died January 1, 1994 at age 86.

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (1-9-44) Jack and Rochester go to the freight office to pick up Jack’s camel from his WW II tour.

LUX RADIO THEATRE (2-22-56) “Shane” staring Alan Ladd, Van Heflin and Ruth Hussey in a radio version of the 1953 screen classic. A gunfighter comes to the aid of homesteaders.

FRED ALLEN SHOW (12-28-47) For Fred’s last show of 1947, guest Monty Woolley tries to help Fred exchange a defective cuckoo clock at a department store. Allen’s Alley question: “What is the outstanding event of 1947?”