[CHICAGO HISTORY - BROADCASTING]. A group of 33 scripts for radio-programs, produced and broadcast in Chicago, 1945-1954.

Comprising 33 typescript or carbon scripts stapled upper left, many with contemporary notes or emendations, most approximately 20 pages, including scripts for WGN, WBBM-CBS, WMAQ, and ABC.

Including: 8 scripts for the Crime Files of Flamond (File Card numbers 82, 185, 190, 193, 194, 195, and 200 including two copies of scripts for File Card 190, dated 17 Aug. 1947 and 7 Sept. 1947); 3 scripts for Gerrity the Great by Jack LaFrandre (program #s 3, 5, and 7); 3 scripts for The Cavalcade of America produced for the Du Pont Company ("Chautauqua Fable," "Douglas Fairbanks in 'The Unheroic Hero'," and "The King of Nantucket") and 5 scripts for the Chicago Public School system. Also including 5 scripts for General Mills, one for the Atlantic Brewing Company, and one for the William Wrigley Jr. Company.

SCRIPTS FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF CHICAGO RADIO

The Crime Files of Flamond was produced for Brach's candies from 1946-1948, and Mike Wallace (then billed as Myron Wallace) played the title role during the program's syndicated run. Wallace's career in journalism spanned seven decades, and he was one of the first correspondents on 60 Minutes. Cavalcade of America, sponsored by DuPont (whose motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry," was read at the beginning of each broadcast) documented historical events emphasizing humanitarian progress.