Radio: Radio and Defense

In the radio web that ties the U.S. people to national defense, two strands were noted last week:

> Over a Mutual Broadcasting System network of more than 100 stations went a new Sunday night program, Keep 'em Rolling, sponsored by the Office for Emergency Management. MBS's Manhattan station, WOR, supplied the musicians and a studio. OEM's radio section supplied Producer Arthur Kurlan.

Keep 'em Rolling had a big-name debut. Its theme ditty, composed for the occasion by Rodgers & Hart, came bugle-like from the lips of musical comedy's forceful Ethel Merman. Master of...

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