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What does “have your cake and eat it too” mean? Having your cake refers to keeping it with you. This means you want to preserve the cake for the future. But you also want to eat it. This is contradictory. The moment you eat your cake, you can’t have it because it is finished. Conversely, if you decide to have or keep your cake then you can’t eat it. This proverb highlights a very valuable lesson w...

With Lon Clark in the title role, the series commenced 11 April 1943, on Mutual, continuing in many different timeslots for well over a decade. Between October 1944 and April 1945, it was heard as a 30-minute program on Sunday afternoons at 3 pm, sponsored by Acme Paints and Lin-X, with a 15-minute serial airing four or five times a week in 1944 from April to September. In April 1945, the Sunday s...

Kathryn Elizabeth Smith (May 1, 1907 – June 17, 1986) was an American contralto. Referred to as The First Lady of Radio, Smith is well known for her renditions of " God Bless America " and " When the Moon Comes over the Mountain ". She became known as The Songbird of the South because of her tremendous popularity during World War II. Notes: More on Kate Smith: https://en.wikipe...

The novel opens with mystery author  Harriet Vane  on trial for the murder of her former lover, Phillip Boyes: a writer with strong views on atheism, anarchy, and  free love . Publicly professing to disapprove of marriage, he had persuaded a reluctant Harriet to live with him, only to renounce his principles a year later and to propose. Harriet, outraged at being deceived, had broken off the relat...

George Valentine’s case started with a book of poems by Robert Burns a valuable early edition from Four Dials Press in Edinburgh a book that someone broke into Mr Humber’s shop just to read, a book that an agent wanted to buy for a collector named Emery Whitsill. And who is Emery Whitsill? Well lieutenant Johnson from homicide has an opinion on that because now it seems the little book may have be...

San Francisco, the Barbary Coast, 1913 and the man with the belligerent voice is a beefy gentleman known as “Dirty Eddie” proprietor of Dirty Eddies Cafe, pride of the coast. The gentlemen reclining on the sidewalk committed an unforgivable sin; he sang a sour note while entertaining Eddies select clientele composed mostly of thugs from the waterfront. As Eddie stands glowering in the swinging doo...

A million dollars in cash provides the bait for two enterprising thieves who find themselves bankrupt before they have finished the chase. Duration: 29:43 Starring: Leon Janney, Kathleen Cordell Broadcast Date: 29th June 1952

George is sitting in his office when he hears a commotion outside. Jimmy Jones, an actor in western pictures, is outside signing autographs. Jimmy Jones enters the office. He has a confidential matter he needs George’s help with. Jimmy goes on to say, the kids like me, maybe because I like them and I would never want to let them down. Jimmy was brought up at Brookdale Orphanage, and every year Jim...

Death At 7:10 by H.F.S. Moore is the very intriguing story of a beautiful woman who was in love with death. . . Duration: 28:58 Starring: Raymond Edward Johnson, Helen Shields Broadcast Date: 3rd July 1947

Come and join Ozzie and Harriet Nelson as they raise their two sons; David and Ricky .... and remember the simple days of child raising. - Jury Duty - The Baseball Manager - The Street Light - Oz Enters An Essay Contest - The New Dress Surprise - Sports Heroes - David's Date - Argument about Rover Boys - Have a Cigar - The New Radio - Phonograph - David Discovers Girls - Going to a Concent - The 3...

At about 3 o’clock Johnny Modero started down Post Street when he spotted the new auction House. It was small with enough dough changing hands to buy back Manhattan Island. Inside it was packed and a bald headed guy on a wooden stand was selling everything but his suspenders so Modero sat at the back and noticed a girl standing up against the wall. She walked over to Modero and asked him to do her...

Cathy is being questioned about the death of poor old Billy. Earlier Billy had confided in Cathy that he was concerned about something he’d found and now he’s dead. Duration: 29:12 Starring: Bill Lipton Broadcast Date: 14th August 1952

When Liz Cooper discovers an error on her wedding license she begins to wonder whether she is legally married to her husband George H Cooper. On their wedding license the husband is named as George C Hooper! Duration: 22:57 Starring: Lucille Ball Broadcast Date: 21st January 1949

Killer At Large is a radio station whose sponsors pay $50,000 for the arrest and conviction of a killer at large. The twist is that they deal with real facts, real people and real crimes and real criminals. With a tape recorder they reconstruct one of San Francisco’s more sensational unsolved crimes the murder of Carol Stevens. The show is made up of the simple and honest spontaneous statements of...

Starring Robert Young. In every family there are special days like the day Junior had his hair cut, the day father reversed into the garage door, the day mother didn’t. And today was going to be one of those days in the Anderson family. It will be remembered as the day father received the Christmas bills! Duration: 30:00 Starring: Robert Young Broadcast Date: 12th January 1950

The makers of Maxwell House Coffee presents 60 star-studded minutes brought to you from Metro Goldwyn Meyer studios in Hollywood starring Fanny Brice as Baby Snooks with Hanley Stafford as Daddy Higgins, Connie Boswell and George Euston. As an added extra special treat this program which is the 100th anniversary episode of Good News it is Movie Night including a special preview of Twentieth Centur...

Christmas on the Blue is a Christmas Variety show with two full hours with some of the biggest stars of radio. The show includes skits, music, and more and is an excellent radio show to listen to get into the holiday mood. The show opens with a very festive rendition of the favorite Christmas song "Deck the Halls." One of the best parts of the Christmas on the Blue is the voices of WWII Military p...

Join Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as they solve mysterious in turn of century England and aboard. The Bruce Partington Plans Murder by Proxy Paradol Chamber Case of the King Phillips Golden Salver Haunting of Sherlock Holmes The Waltz of Death Colonel Warburton Great Gandolf Strange Case of the Persecuted Millionaire Adventure of the Haunted Bagpipe Blarney Stone Darlington Substitution Limping...

As far back as history has recorded our activities, woman has been a rather puzzling creature, especially when she’s going through what is known as the teenage. A good case in point is Betty Anderson. But before we can reveal the capricious maneuvers of her feminine mind we must first look in on the principle male member of the family, Jim Anderson as he settles himself in the Den to do some work...

The Navy has given up it’s search for the missing yacht owned by a millionaire scientist last reported in that region of the Pacific which has in recent months has come to be known as the graveyard of the Pacific due to more than 15 disappearances of ocean vessels in that area of the Pacific in the last two years. The Shadow suspects that the disappearances are more than a coincidence and is set t...

A Murder Of Necessity is a story about a man Paul Drake who commits a murder efficiently and safely only to find out there is a witness the person Herbie Sachs was talking to on the telephone before he was murdered. Paul Drake has to find out who that person was and commit another murder of necessity only to discover that it wasn’t necessary at all. Duration: 28:52 Starring: Robert Young Broadcast...

Richard Red Skelton was an American entertainer best known for his national radio and television shows between 1937 and 1971, especially as host of the television program The Red Skelton Show.

It had started like any other day, a widow named Mrs Coplis had hired Shayne to track down one of her boarders who had run away with her copper samovar and he feared the good widows heart, a guy had called to ask his rates for getting divorce evidence against his blond wife and then an old man named Peters came in. The kind of old guy you might see in Jackson Square sleeping on the grass with a ne...

Whitney "Cam" Cameron arrives at a hospital to be with his widowed sister-in-law Lynne, whose stepdaughter Polly has died under mysterious circumstances. A doctor cannot determine the cause of the child's death. Cam has great affection for his young nephew Doug. He begins to fear for the boy's life when Maggie Sargent ( Catherine McLeod ), the wife of his lawyer, Fred, mentions that the dead girl'...

Following 1936 Father Coughlin retired from all active organizations and now he is encouraging the growth of the Christian Front. Not that it is his organization but that he seeks to its promoters a word of encouragement and a word of advice. In this address Father Coughlin is concerned with the Popular Front that persists in coddling communism and with the Christian Front that is opposed to commu...