A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 2, 1944

This week TIME launches a new kind of radio program for you.

It is called "The World and America"—and right from the start it will be broadcast over 19 stations from Portland, Maine, to Honolulu.

No one has ever tried to do the job "The World and America" does in quite the way this program does it. In a series of 52 broadcasts, it aims to teach U.S. history by letting you eavesdrop on the conversation of two everyday Americans who like the sort of country they live in and want to find out how it...

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