Radio: 13 Years in 45 Minutes

The voices of Caesar and Napoleon, of Genghis Khan, George Washington and Pontius Pilate were never heard by posterity. But the voices of the captains, kings, heroes and villains of the recent past are on record and can be heard as long as the records last. The latest collection,* in an album of five Columbia records called I Can Hear It Now . . . , contains excerpts from famous broadcasts.

Beginning in the early 1930s, when Franklin Roosevelt assured the U.S. that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself" and ending in...

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