Classic Radio 07-24-26 - Spencer Tracy and Edward Arnold, Serenade Macabre, and a jailbreak

**Wyatt Cox** (0:10)
Now, the greatest radio shows of all time. Suspense, The Shadow Node, Washington Calling, David Harding, Counter-Spy, Classic Radio Theater, The Great Gildersleeve, Fibber McGee and Molly, Dragnet, Gunsmoke, The Lone Ranger.
Now, step back into our time machine with your host, Wyatt Cox.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:34)
Good evening, friends of the NSXN.

**Wyatt Cox** (0:39)
Variety and Crime on a Friday, with The Chase and Sanborn Hour, The Crime Club, A Life in Your Hands, and an episode of Blum and Abner. That's all straight ahead on this Friday. This is the 24th day of July, 205th day of the year, 160 days remaining. Brigham Young and the first members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints arrived at the Great Salt Lake on this date in 1847 Celebrations of this event include the Pioneers Day Utah State Holiday and the Days of 47 Parade.
In 1862, Martin Van Buren, the eighth president, died in Kinderhook, New York. In 1866, Tennessee became the first Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union. The Dust Bowl heat wave hit its peak on this date in 1935, sending temperatures to 109 in Chicago and 104 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow on this date in 1959, Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev held a kitchen debate.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:55)
Vice President Nixon escorts Soviet Premier Khrushchev on a preview of the United States Fair at Skolniki Park in Moscow. It's the official opening of the American Exposition, counterpart of the Soviet trade show in New York and dedicated to showcasing the highest standard of life in our country. But on this occasion, traditional diplomacy goes by the board, and the story of the fair itself is eclipsed by a crackling exchange between Nixon and Khrushchev, begun off camera and finished off before the American Ampex color videotape recorders. Every aspect of the Cold War and Soviet-American rivalry is argued in blunt and forthright terms. The threat of atomic warfare, diplomacy by ultimatum, economic progress.
Says Mr. K, the Soviet will overtake America and then wave bye-bye.
Both Khrushchev and Nixon appear to enjoy themselves. Says Khrushchev, he is a communist spokesman dealing with a capitalist lawyer. All that I can say from the way you talk and the way you dominate the conversation, you would have made a good lawyer yourself. But the culmination is agreement that both nations are here in the startling debate uncensored.

**SPEAKER_5** (3:17)
We have all of these reporters here.

**SPEAKER_4** (3:22)
We have every word that you have said has been taken down. And I will promise you that every word that you have said here will be reported in the United States, and they will see you say it on television.

**SPEAKER_6** (3:38)
That's why I want you, Vice President, You are saying that my speech will also be written in English. Will it be?
Certainly.

**SPEAKER_4** (3:59)
And with the same token, everything that I say will be recorded and translated and will be carried all over the Soviet Union. That's a fair bargain news, that's right.

**Wyatt Cox** (4:20)
Ed Herlihy from the Universal International News Reel of the day back in 1959 Apollo 11 splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean on this date in 1969, and the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled on this date in 1974 that President Nixon had to turn over White House tapes to the Watergate Special Prosecutor.
What a mess on this date in 1983 George Brett battling for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees has a game-winning home run nullified in the Pine Tar incident.

**SPEAKER_7** (5:08)
I've never seen this. I never have either. I don't know what they're measuring.
They might be going to call George Brett out.

**Wyatt Cox** (5:18)
Well, he's out.

**SPEAKER_7** (5:20)
Brett is out. Look at this.

**Spencer Tracy** (5:22)
Brett is out. He's demon mad.

**SPEAKER_10** (5:25)
He is out and having to be forcibly restrained.

**Wyatt Cox** (5:32)
Now, as Brett was the third out in the ninth inning with the home team in the league, the game ended with a Yankee win. Now, the Royals protested the game. American League president Lee McPhail upheld their protest and ordered that the game be restarted from the point of Brett's home run. The game restarted on August 18th. It was a crap show, okay, with Yankees manager Billy Martin pulling every trick in the book, including throwing to every base before the first pitch to Brett, indicating that, well, how do these umpires know that this is where these people were on base? I mean, he did everything to try to make it happen, but the Royals did end up winning 5 to 4