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38-05-17 First Show 38-06-07 John Kieran 38-06-14 Marc Connelly 38-06-21 Howard Dietz (no open) 38-06-28 Carla Snow 38-07-05 Oscar Levant 38-07-12 George SKaufman 38-07-19 Thomas Craven, Ben Hecht 38-07-26 John Gunther 38-08-02 Moss Hart 38-08-09 Alice Duer Miller 38-08-23 Percy Waxman 38-08-30 Ben Hecht 38-09-06 Ben Bernie 38-09-13 Percy Waxman 38-09-27 Sigmund Spaeth, BRathbone 38-10-04 Dorothy Thompson 38-10-11 Lillian Gish 38-10-18 Gene Tunney 38-11-01 Oswald Jacoby 38-11-15 John Gunther 38-11-29 Kathleen Norris 38-12-27 William Lyon Phelps 39-01-03 Edwin Edgar 39-01-10 Alexander Woolcott 39-01-24 General Hugh Johnson 39-01-31 Gilbert Seldes, Elisabeth Hawes 39-02-07 Myron Wallace 39-02-14 Russell Crouse, Frank Sullivan 39-02-21 Moe Berg 39-03-21 John Gunther 39-03-28 Rex Stout, Moss Hart 39-04-11 Deems Taylor, Marcus Duffield 39-04-18 H. V. Kaltenborn 39-04-25 Alice Roosevelt Longworth 39-05-16 John P Marquand 39-05-23 Clarence Kelland 39-05-30 Stanley Walker 39-06-13 Helen Wills Moody 39-06-20 John Gunther, Gracie Allen 39-06-27 Wilbur LCross 39-07-04 Lillian Gish 39-07-11 Elliot Roosevelt 39-07-18 William Beebe 39-07-25 Maury Maverick 39-08-01 Russel Crouse 39-08-22 HNapier Moore 39-08-29 Rex Stout 39-09-05 Raymond Gram Swing 39-09-12 Alice Marble 39-09-19 P.Hal Simms 39-09-26 Rex Stout, Carl Van Doren 39-10-03 C. Mildred Thompsen 39-10-10 Christopher Morley 39-10-24 Moe Berg 39-10-31 Carl Sandburg 39-11-07 Christopher Morley 39-11-14 James Farley 39-11-21 Moe Berg 39-12-05 Deems Taylor, Henry Pringle 39-12-12 Walter B. Pitkin 39-12-19 Christopher Morley, Albert Spaulding 39-12-26 Sir Cedric Hardwicke 40-01-02 Gloria Stuart, Carl Van Doren 40-08-27 James Roosevelt, Christopher Morley 40-08-28 Walter Wanger 40-09-03 Henry Beetle Huff 40-09-10 John Gunther Jan Struther 40-09-17 Otto Tolischus 40-09-24 Alva Johnston, Marc Connelly 40-10-01 Claire Booth Luce 40-10-08 Jan Struther, Louis Bromfield 40-10-15 Louis Hacker 40-10-22 Herbert Bayard Swope 40-10-27 Walter D Edmonds 40-10-29 John Mason Brown 40-11-05 Christopher Morley 40-11-15 Fred Allen 40-11-22 Louis E Lawes 40-11-29 Leon Henderson 40-12-06 Jan Struther, Elmer Rice 40-12-13 Ernest Hooten 40-12-20 Herbert Marshall, Louis Bromfield 41-01-03 Deems Taylor, Vincent Sheehan 41-01-10 Kenneth Simpson, James Wallace 41-01-17 Owen Davis 41-01-24 Boris Karloff, Louis E Lawes 41-02-07 Jan Struther, Sir Wilmot Lewis 41-02-14 Deems Taylor, Henry Noble Mccracken 41-02-21 with Joe Davison 41-02-28 John Ohara 41-03-07 Christopher Morley, Elmer Leyden 41-03-14 Clarence Wickert 41-03-21 Roland Young 41-03-28 Elsa Lanchester 41-04-04 John Gunther, Lyman Bryson |
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 The show first ran on the Blue network, May 17, 1938 - Nov. 5, 1940. Afterwards the show was on the NBC network, Nov. 15, 1940 - Jun. 24, 1946. CBS picked the show next, Oct. 2, 1946 - Jun. 25, 1947. The show ended its run on the Mutual network, Sep. 26, 1947 - Jun. 25, 1948. Panelists appearing on the show were: Bernard Jaffe, Marcus Duffield (columnist), Harry Overstreet (Professor of Philosophy, City College), Franklin P. Adams, John Kieran, Bernard Jaffe (science writer), Carmel Snow (editor of Harper's Bazaar), Oscar Levant, Quincy Howe (radio commentator), George S. Kaufman (playwright), Thomas Craven (author), Ben Hecht (playwright), John Gunther (author, correspondent), Moss Hart (playwright), Alden Cook (radio editor of the New York World Telegram), Alice Newell Miller (author), Percy Waxman (associate editor of Cosmopolitan magazine), Ben Hecht, Ben Bernie, Sigmund Spaeth, Basil Rathbone, William Boehnel (panelist, motion picture editor of the New York World Telegram), Dorothy Thompson, Lillian Gish, Gene Tunney, Oswald Jacoby (bridge expert), John Gunther (author, foreign correspondent), Kathleen Norris, Wiliiam Lyon Phelps (Yale professor, journalist), Irwin Edmund (Professsor of Philosophy, Columbia), Alexander Woollcott, Henrik Willem Von Loon, Ogden Nash, Hugh Johnson, Elizabeth Hawes (author of, "Fashion Is Spinach"), Mike Wallace (billed as "a student at Michigan University" representing "the spirit of youth," a 21 year old "bearded youth," Myron Wallace), Russell Crouse, Moe Berg (catcher for The Boston Red Sox), John Gunther (author, foreign correspondent), Moss Hart, Rex Stout (author), Deems Taylor, H. V. Kaltenborn, Alice Roosevelt Longworth (daughter of Theodore Roosevelt), Arthur Krock (Washington Bureau Chief, The New York Times), John P. Marquand (mystery author), Clarence Budington Kelland (author), Stanley Walker (editor of The Philadelphia Public Ledger, author), Helen Wills Moody (tennis player), Gracie Allen, Wilbur Cross (former Governor of Connecticut), Lillian Gish, Elliot Roosevelt, William Beebe (biologist), Clarence Budington Kelland, Maurie Maverick (mayor of San Antonio, author), James Kieran (brother of John Kieran and press secretary of Mayor La Guardia), H. Napier Moore (editor of MacLean's Magazine, Canada), Rex Stout (author), Wilfred Funk (publisher, lexicographer, author), Raymond Gram Swing, Alice Marble (tennis champion, singer, designer of tennis shorts), P. Cal Simms (bridge, pool and card expert), Carl Van Doren, C. Mildred Thompson (Assistant Professor at Vassar, historian), Christopher Morley (author), John T. Flynn (author, columnist), Jan Struther (author), Louis Bromfield (author), Louis Untermeyer, Carl Sandburg, Christopher Morley, Marquis James (author), James Farley (Postmast General), J. P. McEvoy (screenwriter), Henry Pringle (Pulitzer Prize winning author), Walter Pitkin (author of Life Begins At Forty), Christopher Morley (author of Kitty Foyle), Cedric Hardwicke, Gloria Stuart (actress), John Chamberlain (author), Russell Crouse (co-author of Life With Father), Howard Lindsay (co-author of Life With Father), Louis Gannett (author, critic), George Fielding Eliot (m. c., military columnist for The New York Herald Tribune, President of The Committee For National Morale), Monty Woolley, Donna Keyes, Jone Allison, Herbert Hayes, Ted Jewett, Harold Young, F. Van Wyck Mason (writer), Roger Pryor, Harold Ickes (panelist, Secretary Of The Interior), Walter Wanger, James Roosevelt (motion picture producer), Henry Beedle Hough (editor of "The Vineyard Gazette" and author of Country Editor), Otto Tolischus (New York Time columnist), Marc Connelly (author), Clare Boothe Luce, Louis Bromfield (author), John Mason Brown, Fred Allen, Lewis Lawes (warden of Sing Sing), Leon Henderson (economist), Jan Struther (author of Mrs. Minerva), Ernest Albert Houton (anthropologist, author), Herbert Marshall, Walter D. Edmonds (author of Drums Along The Mohawk), Kenneth Simpson (Chairman, Republican Committee), James Wallace (New York judge), Boris Karloff, S. J. Perelman, Wilmot Louis (American correspondent for The London Times), Henry Noble MacCracken (President of Vassar), Joe Davidson (sculptor), John O'Hara (author), Elmer F. Layden (coach of Notre Dame), Claude Rickard (Secretary of Agriculture), Roland Young, Elsa Lanchester, Lyman Bryson (Professor, Columbia University), Philip Merivale (actor), Henry Curran (chief magistrate), Paul Lukas, Donald Ogden Stewart (playwright), Gene Tunney (Lieutenant Commander, U. S. Navy), Frank Sullivan (humorist, backer of Arsenic and Old Lace), Richard Manney (theatrical publicity agent), Cornelia Otis Skinner, Sally Benson (author of Junior Miss), James Wallace (judge, New York), Alfred Hitchcock, Walter Durante (author), Lyman Bryson (Columbia University), Larry MacPhail (of the Brooklyn Dodgers), Louis Bromfield, Stephen Vincent Benet, Lefty Gomez (pitcher for the Yankees), Fiorello La Guardia, Groucho Marx, Douglas Miller (author of You Can't Do Business With Hitler), Drew Pearson, Edna Ferber, George Shuster (President of Hunter College), Joseph Davies (former U. S. ambassador to the U. S. S. R.), Paul Gallico, Ruth Hussey, John Carradine, Emil Ludwig (swiss historian and author), Julian Huxley (biologist), Wallace Deuel (author), Grantland Rice, Margaret Webster, Henry Cabot Lodge (Major in the Tank Corps), Mildred McAfee (who became the first woman officer in the U. S. Navy eleven days later), Leon Henderson (Director of the OPA), Raymond Clapper (correspondent for Scripps-Howard newspapers), Alva Johnston (famous author), Orson Welles, Robert St. John (NBC London commentator, author), Hanson Baldwin (Military Editor of the New York Times), Wilma Lord Perkins (editor of "The Fanny Farmer Cookbook"), Henry Cabot Lodge (Senator, Massachusetts), Leverett Saltonstall (Governor, Massachusetts), Ilka Chase, Will Rogers Jr. (Representative, California), Charles Coburn, Otis Skinner, Emily Kimbrough (who co-authored Our Hearts Were Young and Gay with Skinner), Sinclair Lewis, Carlos Romulo (author, Philippine ambassador to the United Nations), Wendell Willkie, Ray Baldwin (Governor of Connecticut), Ford Frick (President of the National League), Richard Manney (theatrical publicist), Ethel Barrymore, Marcia Davenport (author), Hillary St. George Saunders (author), Walter Yust (editor of The Encyclopedia Brtiannica), Clare Boothe Luce, William Fulbright (Representative, Arkansas), Richard Lockridge (author), Betty Smith (author of, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn), Lister Hill (Senator, Alabama), Joseph Ball (Senator, Minnesota), Moss Hart, Artur Rubinstein, T. F. Chiang (member of the Chinese government, Chinese ambassador to the United Nations), Jesse Stewart (author), John Coffee (Representative, Washington), John P. Marquand (author), Elizabeth Janeway (author), Franchot Tone, Theodore Green (Senator, Rhode Island), Alben Barkley (Senator, Kentucky), Marion Hargrove (author of See Here, Private Hargrove), Emory S. Land (Chairman of The Maritime Commission), Artur Rubinstein, Louis Brown (author), Will Durant (author, historian), Edward Egan (Commissioner of The New York Athletic Commission), James Mason, Pamela Mason and Helen Traubel |
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