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Every now and then, a private detective like Jerry Browning, gets a case that gives him a new lease on life. The man who entered his office this week was a man who dealt in leases, and at a time when apartments were scarcer than hen's teeth, one place had had nine tenants in three months, and the last tenant was dead! 

Starring: Paul Barnes

Broadcast Date: December 30, 1948

Paul Rogers, a 29 year old service station attendant was found to be missing from his post at 4:30am, along with approximately $50 missing from the cash register. In Helena, Montana, from the pages of the Independent Record, we bring you the story of Alan Cowperthwaite, a reporter who gambled his own life, to avenge a murder. 

Broadcast Date: March 19, 1952

A run down on the top ten teams in the nation as rated by the all American Gridiron index. Topping the list for the week 17th October 1953 Notre Dame. All American Elroy Crazy Legs Hirsch does a feature about, one of the great football teams to come out of the far west, the 1947 Stanford team.

Broadcast Date: October 17, 1953

The 1953 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game played on New Year's Day in 1953, at the end of the 1952 college football season. It was the 39th Rose Bowl Game, but it was the first Rose Bowl game for Wisconsin, and the first Rose Bowl appearance for the Trojans since 1948. Played in Pasadena, California, the game featured the fewest points scored in a Rose Bowl since 1922, with both the Trojans and Badgers failing to score through the first half!

Broadcast Date: January 1, 1953

The 1953 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game played on New Year's Day in 1953, at the end of the 1952 college football season. It was the 39th Rose Bowl Game, but it was the first Rose Bowl game for Wisconsin, and the first Rose Bowl appearance for the Trojans since 1948. Played in Pasadena, California, the game featured the fewest points scored in a Rose Bowl since 1922, with both the Trojans and Badgers failing to score through the first half!

Broadcast Date: January 1, 1953

The 1953 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game played on New Year's Day in 1953, at the end of the 1952 college football season. It was the 39th Rose Bowl Game, but it was the first Rose Bowl game for Wisconsin, and the first Rose Bowl appearance for the Trojans since 1948. Played in Pasadena, California, the game featured the fewest points scored in a Rose Bowl since 1922, with both the Trojans and Badgers failing to score through the first half!

Broadcast Date: January 1, 1953

The 1953 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game played on New Year's Day in 1953, at the end of the 1952 college football season. It was the 39th Rose Bowl Game, but it was the first Rose Bowl game for Wisconsin, and the first Rose Bowl appearance for the Trojans since 1948. Played in Pasadena, California, the game featured the fewest points scored in a Rose Bowl since 1922, with both the Trojans and Badgers failing to score through the first half!

Broadcast Date: January 1, 1953

Reflecting the ultimate pop culture of the day, thousands of fans listened in rapture for the exciting countdown to the Number One song, from a group of 15, was hyped. Today's show opens with the number 4 hit, A Little Bird Told Me, performed by Frank Sinatra and the Hit Paraders.

Starring: Frank Sinatra

Broadcast Date: January 1, 1949

Tonight’s poems were A Lover’s Sonnet by Dupont, Goodnight by Percy Bysshe Shelly and Flow Gently Sweet Afton by Bobby Burns.

G.I. Jive is an American Air Force Radio Service AFRS) program, which was produced during the Second World War to boost the morale of the US Army overseas. GI Jill who introduced big band and other popular music of the era often requested by the soldiers hosted it.

Starring: Bing Crosby