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CD # Show Titles
IP-001 A. 38-05-17 FIRST SHOW
B. 38-06-07 JOHN KIERAN
IP-002 A. 38-06-14 MARC CONNOLLY
B. 38-06-28 CARLA SNOW
IP-003 A. 38-07-05 OSCAR LEVANT
B. 38-07-12 QUINCY HOWE, GEORGE S. KAUFMANN
IP-004 A. 38-07-19 THOMAS CRAVEN, BEN HECHT
B. 38-07-26 JOHN GUNTHER
IP-005 A. 38-08-02 MOSS HART
B. 38-08-09 ALDEN COOK, ALICE DUER MILLER
IP-006 A. 38-08-23 PERCY WAXMAN
B. 38-08-30 BEN HECHT
IP-007 A. 38-09-06 BEN BERNIE
B. 38-09-13 PERCY WAXMAN
IP-008 A. 38-09-27 SIGMUND SPAETH
B. 38-10-04 DOROTHY THOMPSON
IP-009 A. 38-10-11 LILLIAN GISH
B. 38-10-18 GENE TUNNEY
IP-010 A. 38-11-01 OSWALD JACOBY
B. 38-11-15 JOHN GUNTHER
IP-011 A. 38-11-29 KATHLEEN NORRIS
B. 38-12-27 WILLIAM LYON PHELPS
IP-012 A. 39-01-03 EDWIN EDGAR
B. 39-01-10 ALEXANDER WOOLCOTT
IP-013 A. 39-01-24 GENERAL HUGH JOHNSON
B. 39-01-31 GILBERT SELDES, ELIZABETH HAWES
IP-014 A. 39-02-07 MYRON WALLACE
B. 39-02-14 RUSSELL CROUSE, FRANK SULLIVAN
IP-015 A. 39-02-21 MOE BERG
B. 39-03-21 JOHN GUNTHER
IP-016 A. 39-03-28 REX STOUT MOSS HART
B. 39-04-11 DEEMS TAYLOR, MARCUS DUFFIELD
IP-017 A. 39-04-18 H. V. KALTENBORN
B. 39-04-25 ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH, ARTHUR KROCK
IP-018 A. 39-05-16 JOHN P MARQUAND
B. 39-05-23 CLARENCE BUDINGTON KELLAND
IP-019 A. 39-05-30 STANLEY WALKER
B. 39-06-13 HELEN WILLS MOODY
IP-020 A. 39-06-20 GRACIE ALLEN JOHN GUNTHER
B. 39-06-27 WILBUR CROSS
IP-021 A. 39-07-04 LILIAN GISH
B. 39-07-11 ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT
IP-022 A. 39-07-18 KELLAND WILLIAM BEEBE
B. 39-07-25 MAURY MAVERICK
IP-023 A. 39-08-01 RUSSELL CROUSE JAMES KIERAN
B. 39-08-22 H. NAPIER MOORE
IP-024 A. 39-08-29 REX STOUT WILFRID FUNK
B. 39-09-12 ALICE MARBLE
IP-025 A. 39-09-19 P. HAL SIMMS
B. 39-09-26 REX STOUT, CARL VAN DOREN
IP-026 A. 39-10-03 C. MILDRED THOMPSEN
B. 39-10-10 CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, JOHN T. FLYNN
IP-027 A. 39-10-24 MOE BERG
B. 39-10-31 CARL SANDBURG
IP-028 A. 39-11-07 CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, MARQUIS JAMES
B. 39-11-14 JAMES FARLEY
IP-029 A. 39-11-21 J. P. MACAVOY, MOE BERG
B. 39-12-05 DEEMS TAYLOR, HENRY PRINGLE
IP-030 A. 39-12-12 WALTER B. PITKIN
B. 39-12-19 CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, ALBERT SPAULDING
IP-031 A. 39-12-26 SIR CEDRIC HARDWICKE
B. 40-01-02 GLORIA STUART, CARL VAN DOREN
IP-032 A. 40-08-27 JAMES ROOSEVELT, CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
B. 40-08-28 WALTER WANGER
IP-033 A. 40-09-03 HENRY BEETLE HUFF
B. 40-09-10 JOHN GUNTHER, JAN STRUTHER
IP-034 A. 40-09-17 OTTO TOLISCHUS
B. 40-09-24 ALVA JOHNSTON, MARC CONNELLY
IP-035 A. 40-10-01 CLAIRE BOOTH LUCE
B. 40-10-08 JAN STRUTHER, LOUIS BROMFIELD
IP-036 A. 40-10-15 LOUIS HACKER
B. 40-10-22 HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE
IP-037 A. 40-10-27 WALTER D. EDMONDS
B. 40-10-29 JOHN MASON BROWN
IP-038 A. 40-11-05 CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
B. 40-11-15 FRED ALLEN
IP-039 A. 40-11-22 LOUIS E. LAWES
B. 40-11-29 LEON HENDERSON
IP-040 A. 40-12-06 JAN STRUTHER, ELMER RICE
B. 40-12-13 ERNEST HOOTEN
IP-041 A. 40-12-20 HERBERT MARSHALL, LOUIS BROMFIELD
B. 41-01-03 DEEMS TAYLOR, VINCENT SHEEHAN
IP-042 A. 41-01-10 KENNETH SIMPSON, JAMES WALLACE
B. 41-01-17 OWEN DAVIS
IP-043 A. 41-01-24 BORIS KARLOFF, LOUIS E LAWES
B. 41-02-07 JAN STRUTHER, SIR WILMOT LEWIS
IP-044 A. 41-02-14 DEEMS TAYLOR, HENRY NOBLE MCCRACKEN
B. 41-02-21 JOE DAVIDSON
IP-045 A. 41-02-28 JOHN O'HARA
B. 41-03-07 CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, ELMER LEYDEN
IP-046 A. 41-03-14 CLARENCE WICKERT
B. 41-03-21 ROLAND YOUNG
IP-047 A. 41-03-28 ELSA LANCHESTER
B. 41-04-04 JOHN GUNTHER, LYMAN BRYSON
IP-048 A. 41-04-11 PHILIP MERRIVALE
B. 41-04-18 REX STOUT, HENRY CURRAN
IP-049 A. 41-04-25 PAUL LUKAS
B. 41-05-02 DEEMS TAYLOR, DONALD OGDEN STEWART
IP-050 A. 41-05-09 GENE TUNNEY
B. 41-05-16 FRANK SULLIVAN, DICK MANEY
IP-051 A. 41-05-23 DEEMS TAYLOR
B. 41-05-30 JAN STRUTHER, CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER
IP-052 A. 41-06-06 SALLY BENSON
B. 41-06-13 BILL TILDEN
IP-053 A. 41-06-20 JAMES WALLACE, ALFRED E SMITH
B. 41-06-27 ALFRED HITCHCOCK
IP-054 A. 41-07-04 JOHN GUNTHER, WALTER DURANTY
B. 41-07-11 MARY BOLAND
IP-055 A. 41-08-01 LYMAN BRYSEN, HENRY NOBEL MCCRACKEN
B. 41-08-08 LARRY MCPHAIL
IP-056 A. 41-08-15 DEEMS TAYLOR, RUSSELL CROUSE
B. 41-09-05 DEEMS TAYLOR
IP-057 A. 41-09-12 LEWIS BROMFIELD, MARGARET LEECH
B. 41-09-19 STEPHEN VINCENT BENET
IP-058 A. 41-09-26 JAN STRUTHER, THOMAS BEECHAM
B. 41-10-03 LEFTY GOMEZ, DEEMS TAYLOR, FIORELLO LAGUARDIA
IP-059 A. 41-10-17 FRED ALLEN
B. 41-10-21 C.S. FORESTER
IP-060 A. 41-10-31 GROUCHO MARX
B. 41-11-07 DOUGLAS MILLER
IP-061 A. 41-11-21 CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER
B. 41-11-28 DREW PEARSON, ROBERT ALLEN
IP-062 A. 41-12-05 DEEMS TAYLOR, EDNA FERBER
B. 41-12-12 GEORGE N. SCHUSTER
IP-063 A. 41-12-26 JOHN GUNTHER - One Hour Program
IP-064 A. 42-01-16 PAUL GALLICO
B. 42-01-23 DEEMS TAYLOR, ALEXANDER WOOLCOTT
IP-065 A. 42-02-06 CHRISTOPHER MORLEY RUTH HUSSEY
B. 42-02-27 WALLACE R. DUELL
IP-066 A. 42-03-06 GRANTLAND RICE
B. 42-03-27 EMIL LUDWIG
IP-067 A. 42-04-17 JAN STRUTHER, JULIAN HUXLEY
B. 42-05-08 CARRADINE BEECHAM
IP-068 A. 42-05-22 DEEMS TAYLOR H.I. PHILLIPS
B. 42-05-29 HENRY CABOT LODGE
IP-069 A. 42-07-10 DEEMS TAYLOR ROLAND YOUNG
B. 42-07-17 WALLACE R. DUELL
IP-070 A. 41-12-19 JOSEPH DAVIES, JAN STRUTHER
B. 42-07-24 CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER, CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
IP-071 A. 42-08-07 NED SPARKS
B. 42-08-14 MILDRED H. MACAFEE
IP-072 A. 42-08-21 RAYMOND CLAPPER, LEON HENDERSON
B. 42-08-28 QUINCY HOWE
IP-073 A. 42-09-04 JAN STRUTHER, C.S. FORRESTER
B. 42-09-11 ALVA JOHNSTON
IP-074 A. 42-09-18 ORSON WELLES, CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
B. 42-09-25 LEON HENDERSON
IP-075 A. 42-10-02 DEEMS TAYLOR, ROBERT ST. JOHN
B. 42-10-09 GREGORY RATOFF
IP-076 A. 42-10-30 CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
B. 42-11-06 HANSON W. BALDWIN
IP-077 A. 42-11-20 LEWIS BROMFIELD
B. 42-12-04 HENRY CABOT LODGE
IP-078 A. 42-12-11 WILLIAM L. SHIRER, CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
B. 42-12-18 ILKA CHASE
IP-079 A. 42-12-25 JAMES WALLACE, LEON HENDERSON
B. 43-01-01 GREGORY RATOFF
IP-080 A. 43-01-08 WILL ROGERS JR.
B. 43-01-22 ALFRED HITCHCOCK
IP-081 A. 43-01-29 EMILY KIMBROUGH, CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER
B. 43-02-05 JAN STRUTHER
IP-082 A. 43-02-15 FRED ALLEN
B. 43-03-01 WILL ROGERS JR.
IP-083 A. 43-03-08 GREGORY RATOFF
B. 43-03-29 CARLOS P. ROMULO
IP-084 A. 43-03-29 CARLOS P. ROMULO
B. 43-04-05 JAN STRUTHER, CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER
IP-085 A. 43-04-12 WENDELL WILLKIE
B. 43-04-26 FORD FRICK, GRANTLAND RICE
IP-086 A. 43-05-10 GEORGE DENNY JR.
B. 43-05-17 JAN STRUTHER, BORIS KARLOFF
IP-087 A. 43-05-24 ETHEL BARRYMORE, RICHARD MANEY
B. 43-05-31 THOMAS BEECHAM
IP-088 A. 43-06-07 DEEMS TAYLOR, MARCIA DAVENPORT
B. 43-06-14 HILARY ST. GEORGE SAUNDERS
IP-089 A. 43-06-21 CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, C. MILDRED THOMPSON
B. 43-06-28 AT THE CIVIC OPERA HOUSE, CHICAGO - WALTER EUST
IP-090 A. 43-07-12 JAN STRUTHER - WAR MEMORIAL OPERA HOUSE, SAN FRANCISCO
B. 43-09-13 MARCIA DAVENPORT, DEEMS TAYLOR
IP-091 A. 43-09-20 LYRIC THEATRE, BALTIMORE - CLARE BOOTH LUCE
B. 43-09-27 MOSQUE THEATRE, NEWARK NJ - JAMES W. FULBRIGHT
IP-092 A. 43-10-04 BILL STERN, RED BARBER
B. 43-10-11 DONALD CULROSS PEATTIE, DR. WILLIAM BEEBE
IP-093 A. 43-10-18 SYRIA MOSQUE IN PITTSBURGH, NAT'L WAR FUND
B. 43-10-25 RICHARD LOCKRIDGE, JOHN MASON BROWN
IP-094 A. 43-11-01 BETTY SMITH
B. 43-11-08 LISTER HILL, JOSEPH BALL
IP-095 A. 43-11-15 GREGORY RATOFF
B. 43-11-22 RUSSELL CROUSE, MOSS HART
IP-096 A. 43-11-29 ARTUR RUBENSTEIN
B. 43-12-06 LEWIS BROWN, SINCLAIR LEWIS
IP-097 A. 43-12-13 QUINCY HOWE, T.F. CHIANG
B. 43-12-20 JESSE STUART
IP-098 A. 43-12-27 LEON HENDERSON, JAN STRUTHER
B. 44-01-03 LOUIS BROMFIELD
IP-099 A. 44-01-10 CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, JOHN T. COFFEY
B. 44-01-17 JOHN P. MARQUAND
IP-100 A. 44-01-24 ELIZABETH JANEWAY, DEEMS TAYLOR
B. 44-02-28 FRANCHOT TONE
IP-101 A. 44-03-20 ALBEN BARKLEY, THEODORE FRANCIS
B. 44-09-11 JAN STRUTHER, ALEXANDER KNOX
IP-102 A. 44-10-23 ARTUR RUBENSTEIN, LEWIS BROWN
B. 44-11-05 CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, WILL DURANT
IP-103 A. 44-12-25 FRED ALLEN, JAMES WALLACE - ST. ALBAN'S NY NAVAL HOSPITAL
B. 45-01-29 JAN STRUTHER, RUSSELL CROUSE
IP-104 A. 45-02-05 CLIFTON WEBB, MOSS HART
B. 45-02-12 FAITH BALDWIN, FRED ALLEN
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The show first ran on the Blue network, May 17, 1938 - Nov. 5, 1940. Afterwards the show was on the NBC network, Nov. 15, 1940 - Jun. 24, 1946. CBS picked the show next, Oct. 2, 1946 - Jun. 25, 1947. The show ended its run on the Mutual network, Sep. 26, 1947 - Jun. 25, 1948.

Panelists appearing on the show were:
Bernard Jaffe, Marcus Duffield (columnist), Harry Overstreet (Professor of Philosophy, City College), Franklin P. Adams, John Kieran, Bernard Jaffe (science writer), Carmel Snow (editor of Harper's Bazaar), Oscar Levant, Quincy Howe (radio commentator), George S. Kaufman (playwright), Thomas Craven (author), Ben Hecht (playwright), John Gunther (author, correspondent), Moss Hart (playwright), Alden Cook (radio editor of the New York World Telegram), Alice Newell Miller (author), Percy Waxman (associate editor of Cosmopolitan magazine), Ben Hecht, Ben Bernie, Sigmund Spaeth, Basil Rathbone, William Boehnel (panelist, motion picture editor of the New York World Telegram), Dorothy Thompson, Lillian Gish, Gene Tunney, Oswald Jacoby (bridge expert), John Gunther (author, foreign correspondent), Kathleen Norris, Wiliiam Lyon Phelps (Yale professor, journalist), Irwin Edmund (Professsor of Philosophy, Columbia), Alexander Woollcott, Henrik Willem Von Loon, Ogden Nash, Hugh Johnson, Elizabeth Hawes (author of, "Fashion Is Spinach"), Mike Wallace (billed as "a student at Michigan University" representing "the spirit of youth," a 21 year old "bearded youth," Myron Wallace), Russell Crouse, Moe Berg (catcher for The Boston Red Sox), John Gunther (author, foreign correspondent), Moss Hart, Rex Stout (author), Deems Taylor, H. V. Kaltenborn, Alice Roosevelt Longworth (daughter of Theodore Roosevelt), Arthur Krock (Washington Bureau Chief, The New York Times), John P. Marquand (mystery author), Clarence Budington Kelland (author), Stanley Walker (editor of The Philadelphia Public Ledger, author), Helen Wills Moody (tennis player), Gracie Allen, Wilbur Cross (former Governor of Connecticut), Lillian Gish, Elliot Roosevelt, William Beebe (biologist), Clarence Budington Kelland, Maurie Maverick (mayor of San Antonio, author), James Kieran (brother of John Kieran and press secretary of Mayor La Guardia), H. Napier Moore (editor of MacLean's Magazine, Canada), Rex Stout (author), Wilfred Funk (publisher, lexicographer, author), Raymond Gram Swing, Alice Marble (tennis champion, singer, designer of tennis shorts), P. Cal Simms (bridge, pool and card expert), Carl Van Doren, C. Mildred Thompson (Assistant Professor at Vassar, historian), Christopher Morley (author), John T. Flynn (author, columnist), Jan Struther (author), Louis Bromfield (author), Louis Untermeyer, Carl Sandburg, Christopher Morley, Marquis James (author), James Farley (Postmast General), J. P. McEvoy (screenwriter), Henry Pringle (Pulitzer Prize winning author), Walter Pitkin (author of Life Begins At Forty), Christopher Morley (author of Kitty Foyle), Cedric Hardwicke, Gloria Stuart (actress), John Chamberlain (author), Russell Crouse (co-author of Life With Father), Howard Lindsay (co-author of Life With Father), Louis Gannett (author, critic), George Fielding Eliot (m. c., military columnist for The New York Herald Tribune, President of The Committee For National Morale), Monty Woolley, Donna Keyes, Jone Allison, Herbert Hayes, Ted Jewett, Harold Young, F. Van Wyck Mason (writer), Roger Pryor, Harold Ickes (panelist, Secretary Of The Interior), Walter Wanger, James Roosevelt (motion picture producer), Henry Beedle Hough (editor of "The Vineyard Gazette" and author of Country Editor), Otto Tolischus (New York Time columnist), Marc Connelly (author), Clare Boothe Luce, Louis Bromfield (author), John Mason Brown, Fred Allen, Lewis Lawes (warden of Sing Sing), Leon Henderson (economist), Jan Struther (author of Mrs. Minerva), Ernest Albert Houton (anthropologist, author), Herbert Marshall, Walter D. Edmonds (author of Drums Along The Mohawk), Kenneth Simpson (Chairman, Republican Committee), James Wallace (New York judge), Boris Karloff, S. J. Perelman, Wilmot Louis (American correspondent for The London Times), Henry Noble MacCracken (President of Vassar), Joe Davidson (sculptor), John O'Hara (author), Elmer F. Layden (coach of Notre Dame), Claude Rickard (Secretary of Agriculture), Roland Young, Elsa Lanchester, Lyman Bryson (Professor, Columbia University), Philip Merivale (actor), Henry Curran (chief magistrate), Paul Lukas, Donald Ogden Stewart (playwright), Gene Tunney (Lieutenant Commander, U. S. Navy), Frank Sullivan (humorist, backer of Arsenic and Old Lace), Richard Manney (theatrical publicity agent), Cornelia Otis Skinner, Sally Benson (author of Junior Miss), James Wallace (judge, New York), Alfred Hitchcock, Walter Durante (author), Lyman Bryson (Columbia University), Larry MacPhail (of the Brooklyn Dodgers), Louis Bromfield, Stephen Vincent Benet, Lefty Gomez (pitcher for the Yankees), Fiorello La Guardia, Groucho Marx, Douglas Miller (author of You Can't Do Business With Hitler), Drew Pearson, Edna Ferber, George Shuster (President of Hunter College), Joseph Davies (former U. S. ambassador to the U. S. S. R.), Paul Gallico, Ruth Hussey, John Carradine, Emil Ludwig (swiss historian and author), Julian Huxley (biologist), Wallace Deuel (author), Grantland Rice, Margaret Webster, Henry Cabot Lodge (Major in the Tank Corps), Mildred McAfee (who became the first woman officer in the U. S. Navy eleven days later), Leon Henderson (Director of the OPA), Raymond Clapper (correspondent for Scripps-Howard newspapers), Alva Johnston (famous author), Orson Welles, Robert St. John (NBC London commentator, author), Hanson Baldwin (Military Editor of the New York Times), Wilma Lord Perkins (editor of "The Fanny Farmer Cookbook"), Henry Cabot Lodge (Senator, Massachusetts), Leverett Saltonstall (Governor, Massachusetts), Ilka Chase, Will Rogers Jr. (Representative, California), Charles Coburn, Otis Skinner, Emily Kimbrough (who co-authored Our Hearts Were Young and Gay with Skinner), Sinclair Lewis, Carlos Romulo (author, Philippine ambassador to the United Nations), Wendell Willkie, Ray Baldwin (Governor of Connecticut), Ford Frick (President of the National League), Richard Manney (theatrical publicist), Ethel Barrymore, Marcia Davenport (author), Hillary St. George Saunders (author), Walter Yust (editor of The Encyclopedia Brtiannica), Clare Boothe Luce, William Fulbright (Representative, Arkansas), Richard Lockridge (author), Betty Smith (author of, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn), Lister Hill (Senator, Alabama), Joseph Ball (Senator, Minnesota), Moss Hart, Artur Rubinstein, T. F. Chiang (member of the Chinese government, Chinese ambassador to the United Nations), Jesse Stewart (author), John Coffee (Representative, Washington), John P. Marquand (author), Elizabeth Janeway (author), Franchot Tone, Theodore Green (Senator, Rhode Island), Alben Barkley (Senator, Kentucky), Marion Hargrove (author of See Here, Private Hargrove), Emory S. Land (Chairman of The Maritime Commission), Artur Rubinstein, Louis Brown (author), Will Durant (author, historian), Edward Egan (Commissioner of The New York Athletic Commission), James Mason, Pamela Mason and Helen Traubel


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