"Now you can sit in your own home and matriculate!" cooed the announcer. "Hug the radio and become a college student! In cooperation with the University of Louisville, WHAS presents for the first time over any standard commercial station a college course for credit!"
The half-hour program that followed was the first installment in the University of Louisville's twice-weekly "radio-assisted correspondence course" in "Problems of Modern Society." It included a chorus of All Hail to You, Dear U. of L., a talk by Louisville's unshrinking President John W. Taylor, and instructions on how to enroll (to sign up, just tear off and...
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