Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Army. 1903 - 2007. Audio Recordings from the "Army Hour" Program Series. 1956 - 1972. THE ARMY HOUR

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Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Army. 1903 - 2007. Audio Recordings from the "Army Hour" Program Series. 1956 - 1972. THE ARMY HOUR

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National Archives at College Park

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Caputo, Ed, narrator

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Grant, Cary, 1904-1986

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Eskind, David B., 1909-1992

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David B. Eskind (1909-1992), a radio scriptwriter and producer, was born in Nashville, Tennessee. He studied writing under Thornton Wilder at the University of Chicago, from which he graduated in 1934. For the next several years he wrote radio scripts for NBC and CBS. During World War II he served in the Army in the Pacific as a writer-producer of Army education and information programs. After the war he joined the staff of the Armed Forces Radio Service in Washington, D.C., where he became a ci...