Radio: Program Preview, Jul. 14, 1947

For the week starting Friday, July 11. Times are E.D.T., subject to change.

American Novels (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). Dramatization of Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.

Meet the Press (Fri. 10 p.m., Mutual). Florida’s Senator Claude Pepper interviewed by four newsmen.

Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Topic: Thoreau’s Walden. Speakers: University of Chicago Philosophy Professor T. V. Smith, Chicago Tribune Book Editor Fred Babcock and Lynn A. Williams Jr., president of the Great Books Foundation.

NBC Summer Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 1 in G Minor, Glazounov’s Carnaval Overture, Lekeu’s Adagio for Strings. Conductor: Frank Black.

Berkshire Festival (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). Serge Koussevitzky conducts the Boston Symphony in an all-Bach program: Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in C Minor, Suite No. 1 in C Major, Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra No. 2 in C Major. Soloists: Pianists Pierre Luboshutz and Genia Nemenoff.

Lights Out (Wed. 10:30 p.m., ABC). Boris Karloff starts a chilly summer series.

Middleweight Championship (Wed. 11 p.m., NBC). Champion Tony Zale v. Rocky Graziano.

Suspense (Thurs. 8 p.m., CBS). Beyond Good and Evil, with Vincent Price.

Town Meeting of the Air (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., ABC). Topic: “Is Universal Military Training Necessary for our National Security?” Speakers: Brigadier General John M. Devine, Arkansas’ Senator J. William Fulbright, Socialist Norman Thomas, Montana Judge Leif Erickson.