For seven days beginning Saturday, July 9. All times are EDST. All programs subject to change without notice.
First Ship Through Bonneville Dam (Sat. 1 p.m. CBS) passes through locks to open The Dalles, Ore. to ocean commerce.
Red Badge of Courage (Sat. 7:30 p.m. CBS). Columbia Workshop makes microphone drama of Stephen Crane’s Civil War story.
George Gershwin Memorial (Sun. 3 p.m. CBS). Jazz King Paul Whiteman and Conductor Howard Barlow direct merged orchestras in a commemorative concert. Soloists: Singers Maxine Sullivan and Jane Froman, Pianists Roy Bargy and Walter Gross.
Mercury Theatre (Mon. 9 p.m. CBS) comes to radio for the first time to begin a series of dramatized narrations with Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island.
Amateur Fights (Wed. 11:15 p.m. NBC-Blue). Bouts between Chicago’s Catholic Youth Organization boxers and a team from Ireland, at Soldier Field.
California Rodeo (Thurs. 7 p.m. MBS). Opening ceremonies and parade at Salinas.
Men In White (Thurs. 9 p.m. NBC-Blue). Sidney Kingsley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning hospital play in condensed revival.
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