Radio: $6.50 Broadcast

For a variety of reasons (main one: to avoid wearing out radio stars' welcome), Radio does not go in for selling phonograph records of broadcasts to the public. But one night last week, listeners to WQXR in Manhattan heard a broadcast called Then Came War: 1939 that anyone was welcome to buy, on three double-faced, twelve-inch records, for $6.50.

For those who stayed tuned in during the war crisis, Then Came War: 1939, a MARCH OF TiMEstyle dramatization (with background by Commentator Elmer Davis) of the ten tumbled days that ushered in World War...