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Grantland Rice's Favorite Sports Stories. Scripts, 1943-1945
1 box and 2 folders (0.6 cubic feet)
: Scripts of a series half-hour dramatizations of sports stories broadcast weekly on WEAF.
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432
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6
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1943: - December 11, #1, “The Lady Was a Flop” / by Borden Chase, adapted by Gerald Holland
- December 18, #2, “This Football” / by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, adapted by Gerald Holland
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432
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6-8
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1944 January-June: - January 8, #3, “The Hero” / by Margaret Weymouth Jackson, adapted by Gerald Holland
- January 15, #4, “You Could Look It Up” / by James Thurber, adapted by Gerald Holland
- January 22, #5, “Double for Trouble” / by B. B. Fowler, adapted by Gerald Holland
- January 29, #6, “Horseshoes” / by Ring Lardner, adapated by Gerald Holland
- February 5, #7, “Second Wind” / by Stanley Frank, adapated by Gerald Holland
- February 19, #8, “Alibi Ike” / by Ring Lardner, adapted by Gerald Holland
- February 26, #9, “The Comeback” / by Aubrey Wisberg, adapated by Gerald Holland
- March 4, #10, “Old Indispensable” / by Stanley Frank, adapated by Gerald Holland
- March 11, #11, “The Phantom Drive” / by William Tilden II, adapated by Gerald Holland
- March 25, #12, “Hurry Kane” / by Ring Lardner, adapated by Gerald Holland
- April 1, #13, “Little McGraw” / by Frederick Hazlett Brennan, adapted by Gerald Holland
- April 8, #14, “Let the Chisel Ring” / by Phil R. Sheridan, adapted by Gerald Holland
- April 15, #15, “For Dear Old Sweeney” / by Stanley Frank,
- April 22, #16, “Harmony” / by Ring Lardner, adapted by Gerald Holland
- April 29, #17, “The Road to Athens” / by Jackson Scholz, adapted by Gerald Holland
- May 6, #18, “Mister Conley” / by Charles Van Loan, adapted by Gerald Holland
- May 13, #19, “McGraw of the Giants” / by Frank Graham, adapted by Gerald Holland
- May 20, #20, “Dive, Brother, Dive” / by Lee Floren, adapted by Gerald Holland
- May 27, #21, “A Caddy's Diary” / by Ring Lardner, adapted by Gerald Holland
- June 3, #22, “No Gloves for Jennie” / by Lee Floren, adapted by Gerald Holland
- June 10, #23, “A Frame-Up” / by Ring Lardner, adapted by Ben Kagan
- June 17, #24, “Sandlot Phenom” / by W. T. Ford, adapted by Ben Kagan
- June 24, #25, “Little Poison Ivy” / by Charles E. Van Loan, adapted by Ben Kagan
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433
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1-2
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1944 July-December: - July 1, #26, “Defending Champion” / by John R. Tunis, adapted by Ben Kagan
- July 8, #27, “My Roomy” / by Ring Lardner, adapted by Ben Kagan
- July 15, #28, “The Cockeyed Wonder” / by Richard Macauley, adapted by Ben Kagan
- July 22, #29, “Fore” / by Frank Bunce, adapted by Ben Kagan
- July 29, #30, “Readin', Ritin', and Resin” / by Phil R. Sheridan, adapted by Ben Kagan
- August 5, #31, “You Could Look It Up” / by James Thurber, adapted by Gerald Holland
- August 12, #32, “Old Indispensable” / by Stanley Frank, adapted by Gerald Holland
- August 19, #33, “The Making of a Sportsman” / by Thomas Stix, adapted by Ben Kagan
- August 26, #34, “Champion” / by Ring Lardner, adapted by Ben Kagan
- September 2, #35, “Crazy Over Horse Mackerel” / by Philip Wylie, adapted by Ben Kagan
- September 9, #36, “Rackety Rax” / by Joel Sayre, adapted by Ben Kagan
- November 11, #37, “This Football” / by Frederick Hazlett Brennan, adapted by Gerald Holland
- November 18, #38, “The Hero” / by Margaret Weymouth Jackson, adapted by Gerald Holland
- November 25, #39, “Dive, Brother, Dive” / by Lee Floren, adapted by Gerald Holland
- December 2, #40, “Gravy Train” / by Stanley Frank, adapted by Gerald Holland
- December 9, #41, “The Twenty-Two Coaches” / by T. W. Ford, adapted by Gerald Holland
- December 16, #42, “No Gloves for Jennie” / by Lee Floren, adapted by Gerald Holland
- December 23, #43, “Second Wind” / by Stanley Frank, adapted by Gerald Holland
- December 30, #44, “The Shadow of Mickey McGann” / by Gerald Holland
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433
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3-4
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1945: - January 6, #45, “Kayo Crazy” / by Chuck Crane, adapted by Gerald Holland
- January 13, #46, “Football Brains” / by Harrison Hendryx, adapted by Gerald Holland
- January 20, #47, “Anything For a Pal” / by Edward Jurist
- January 27, #48, “The Amateur Spirit” / by Richard Macaulay, adapted by Gerald Holland
- February 3, #49, “Alibi Ike” / by Ring Lardner, adapted by Gerald Holland
- February 10, #50, “Git Out o' t' Game!” by Richard Macaulay, adapted by Gerald Holland
- February 17, #51, “Ring Gunner” / by Jackson V. Scholz, adapted by Gerald Holland
- February 24, #52, “The Biscuit Eater” / by James Street, adapted by Tom Gootee
- March 3, #53, “Little McGraw” / by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, adapted by Gerald Holland
- March 10, #54, “Punchy” / by Don Tracy, adapted by Gerald Holland
- March 17, #55, “Rink Fire” / by Jackson V. Scholz, adapted by Gerald Holland
- March 24, #56, “Getaway Money” / by Patterson McNutt, adapted by Gerald Holland and Tom Gootee
- March 31, #57, “Weep No More, M'Lady” / by James Street, adapted by Gerald Holland
- April 7, #58, “The Fourteenth Virtue” / by Clifford Knight, adapted by Gerald Holland
- April 21, #59, “Harmony” / by Ring Lardner, adapted by Gerald Holland
- April 28, #60, “Please Come Home M'Lady” / by James Street, adapted by Gerald Holland
- May 5, #61, “The Gas House Gang” / by J. Roy Stockton, adapted by Gerald Holland
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