Even more than the movies, radio dramas have always depended on music to get listeners from one mood or scene into another, fast. In the trade, such six-or eight-bar snatches of music are called cues or "bridges." Some radio stations use canned movie-type music; others employ would-be Wagners to grind out poor-man's leitmotives according to script.
Last week the New York Herald Tribune's able Radio Columnist John Crosby stumbled open-eyed into what is one of radio's largest arsenals of bridge music. Picking his way through the library at Manhattan's WOR (Mutual), he found on...
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