In Breaking Walls episode 132 we go back to the late 1940s and say Happy Halloween with Mutual Broadcasting.

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Highlights:

• The Seedy Underbelly of Coney Island on The Crime Club

• Take a Ride with The Mysterious Traveler

• Mystery is My Hobby

• Quiet Please

• 1948 Halloween News with Arthur Bario

• The House of Mystery

• True Detective Mysteries

• Halloween 1948 with Holmes and The Shadow

• Truman Wins a Stunning Reelection

• Murder By Experts

• Finishing With I Love a Mystery

• Looking Ahead to Thanksgiving

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The reading material used in today’s episode was:

American Radio Networks: A History — By Jim Cox

• On the Air — By John Dunning

• Network Radio Ratings — By Jim Ramsburg

• The Museum of Broadcast Communications Encyclopedia of Radio — By Christopher Sterling

• WOR: The First Sixty Years

As well as articles from the archives of

• The Los Angeles Times

• The New York Daily News

• The New York Times

• Radio Daily

• The Saturday Evening Post

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On the interview front:

• Jim Boles, Bret Morrison, Carlton E. Morse, and Russell Thorson, were with Chuck Schaden. Hear their full chats at SpeakingOfRadio.com.

• Joseph Julian was with Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for WTIC’s The Golden Age of Radio. Hear these at Goldenage-WTIC.org.

• Harry Bartell and André Baruch were with SPERDVAC. For more info, go to SPERDVAC.com.

•Orson Welles was with Johnny Carson

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Selected music featured in today’s episode was:

• Halloween — By Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians

• Manhattan — By Blossom Dearie

• Flag of Columbia — By Jacqueline Schwab

• Danse Macabre — By Camille Saint-Saëns

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A special thank you to Ted Davenport, Jerry Haendiges, and Gordon Skene.

For Ted go to RadioMemories.com, for Jerry, visit OTRSite.com, and for Gordon, please go to PastDaily.com.

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Thank you to:

Tony Adams

Steven Allmon

Orson Orsen Chandler

Phil Erickson

Jessica Hanna

Perri Harper

Briana Isaac

Thomas M. Joyce

Ryan Kramer

Earl Millard

Gary Mollica

Barry Nadler

Christian Neuhaus

Aimee Pavy

Ray Shaw

Filipe A Silva

John Williams

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