Radio: Basin Street Blues

When NBC's Blue Network was divorced from the Red, the Blue retained custody of one of radio's brighter offspring — the Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street. Like many a bright village charmer who strangely never wed, the Basin Street program (Blue, Wed. 9 p.m. EWT) has never been seriously wooed by a sponsor with honorable intentions. Last week, for example, the Blue turned down a bid for it from Sal Hepatica, which wanted it as a summer substitute for Eddie Cantor, which would merely have involved the Blue's giving the show up...

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