Radio: Summer Shows

It is an immutable law of the air waves that the cost of radio entertainment varies inversely with the rise of the thermometer. Busy last week with summer substitutes for top-flight shows were NBC, CBS, MBS, many an advertising agency.

Filling in for Fibber McGee and Molly last year, blind Pianist Alec Templeton made such a hit that he was signed by Alka-Seltzer in September. Last year The Aldrich Family, after a spell on Kate Smith's show, substituted for Jack Benny, wound up with a winter spot of its own.

This summer The Aldrich...

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