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Show MONDAY NIGHT TO SETRECORD Some of the nation's top record re-cord breaking radio shows will return to the air Monday, August Aug-ust 29, after a summer vacation. The grand winner is Lux Radio Ra-dio Theatre! About to celebrate its fifteenth anniversary on the air (October 14), this distinguished distinguish-ed dramatic sirees has had 627 hour-long broadcasts over KSL since its debut in 1934. Heard on Mondays at 7:00 p.h., with William Wil-liam Keighley as host, returns to the air next Monday night when Bette Davis will star in "June Bride." Inner Sanctum, radio's greatest great-est mood-and-mystery series, wins second prize in the number num-ber of Monday broadcasts. This famous 6:00 p.m. program presided pre-sided over by Paul McGrath, has run up a total of 287 weekly broadcasts and, of course, is still going strong. The squeaking door will open on time next Monday! The other three Monday programs pro-grams on KSL, Arthur Godfrey's God-frey's Talent Scouts, My Friend Irma and the Bob Hawk Show are close contestants for third prize with Mr. Godfrey nosing out the rest with a total of 142 broadcasts. Bob Hawk is right behind with a total of 128, while Irma, the Monday night baby, comes in last with a score of 106 Monday night programs. These five family favorites have a grand total of 1290 broadcasts. broad-casts. Or in other words if their total times were added together and the programs broadcast consecutively con-secutively there would be material ma-terial enough to last for forty solid days. And that's a record. |