Kate Smith was Americas top songstress in 1938, and her weekly Kate Smith Hour
on CBS was heard by many millions of radio listeners that Thursday, November 10
when she sang Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America” for the first time as the closing number of the show. The new anthem became so popular that Smith sang it on
nearly every broadcast through December 1940, after which there was a ban
on public performances of ASCAP songs. Kate Smith recorded “God Bless
America”  for RCA Victor on March 21, 1939, and that version has been
reissued countless times over the years.

Actor Carl Frank in a publicity photo

Matt Crowley

BUCK ROGERS (Carl Frank) AND WILMA DEERING (Adele Ronson)

Three years after bringing science fiction to the world of comic strips, Buck
Rogers in the 25th Century was brought to CBS radio on November 7, 1932. It
Originally aired from New York and broadcast four times weekly, initially at 7:15
P.M. and later moved to an earlier "children’s hour". Actors Matt Crowley and
Carl Frank (above) along with Curtis Arnall and John Larkin all voiced Buck
Rogers at various times. The beautiful and strong-willed Wilma Deering was
portrayed by Adele Ronson, and the brilliant scientist-inventor Dr. Huer
was played by Edgar Stehli.

           Arthur William Matthew “Art” Carney    
        
   (November 4, 1918 – November 9, 2003)

Art Carney was a actor in film, stage, television land radio. He
is best known for playing Ed Norton, opposite Jackie Gleason’s
Ralph Kramden in the CBS-TV sitcom The Honeymooners
(1955-1956).

Filming The Honeymooners using three Electronicams.

Walter Cronkite as a student at the University of Texas.

Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr.  (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009)

Legendary CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite was often called “the most
trusted man in America”.

October 30, 1988, 50th anniversary documentary on the
radio show

A tripod