Radio: Comes September

With the first frosty air of fall, most of radio's summer replacements had withered on the. network vines. Those hardy perennials, the big winter shows, were abloom again. Indications were that the jokes, the routines and the voices would be much the same as last season. But there would be some minor changes:

ΒΆ In Allen's Alley, satchel-eyed Fred Allen has dispossessed two tenants: Senator Claghorn and Ajax Cassidy. Cassidy is gone for good, but the Senator will tub-thump occasionally during the election campaign. The vacancies have been let to a mysterious Russian, Sergei Strogonoff, and to a new rhyming character...

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