Radio: Find

On New Year's Day Mutual Broadcasting System put on a thumping show for its listeners. For a full hour it recalled, via recordings, the men & events that made 1939 a momentous year in history. Listeners heard the quivering voice of Tom Mooney, free at last in the California sun. They listened to a Cavalier officer's clipped story of his ship's disaster, thrilled to the drama of the Squalus rescue work. They heard a new Pope proclaimed. They heard three men launch a war. And, as conductor of this medley of events, they heard...

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