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Pondering Christmas Past – 1956 – Past Daily Reference Room

– NBC Radio – Conversation: Christmas 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Christmas Eve 1956. Certainly a different time – different sets of values, different communication skills, different world all together. But then, as now, the times were nervous…

December 21, 1939 – Christmas In Wartime – Festive In Short Supply – The Last Of Merry For The Duration.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”6144″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”December 21, 1939 – Guy Savage News – Mutual – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Despite news earlier in the week of the sinking of the German Battleship Admiral Graf Spee, Germany was celebrating Christmas,…

Hollywood Goes to the War Front

George Fisher’s Let’s Go Hollywood – Christmas With The Troops In 1952 – Past Daily Holiday Gallimaufry

What began during World War 2 as a holiday ritual, continued on for decades as members of the Hollywood contingent boarded planes and headed off to Army camps to spend Christmas with the troops. In 1952 it was Korea. And…

Richard Rodgers

December 31, 1979 – Scrambled World And Richard Rodgers: The Passing Of An Icon

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”18841″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”CBS World News Roundup + Newsbreak – December 31, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Become a Patron! As 1979 came to a close, the world was once again facing The Big Question Mark.…