Like slugs from a Tommy gun, the words stuttered out of Chicago's WBBM: "They take this 90-pound pressure hose and shove it up against your spine and . . . keep on giving it to you until you scream bloody murder." A scared kid was describing life at the state training school for boys at St. Charles, Ill.
Report Uncensored, an exposé of Chicago's juvenile delinquencies, is the brainchild of WBBM's pressagent, Don Kelley. He suggested it as a summer filler for the Lux Radio Theater spot. "Okay, but make it interesting," said CBS Vice President H. Leslie Atlass. Kelley did.
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