Classic Radio 07-25-26 - Paintings of Death, Mad Scientist, and the Dog of Dynamite

**Wyatt Cox** (0:10)
Now, the greatest radio shows of all time. Suspense, The Shadow Node, Washington Calling, David Harding, Counterspy, Classic Radio Theater, The Great Yieldersleeves, 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 Inner Sanctum.

**Wyatt Cox** (0:39)
Crime on a Saturday with episodes of Satan's Waitin, The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective, starring Howard Duff, Broadway Is My Beat, starring Larry Thor, Don Maclaughlin and Mandel Kramer in Counterspy, and we'll have an episode of Alumn and Avernor. That's all straight ahead on this Saturday, 25th day of July, 206th day of the year. We have 159 days left in 2026 Elemay Morris had the first million selling record in history on this date in 1942 with the Cow Cow Boogie.
Maclachs band with Elemay Morris on this day back in 1942 At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey on this date in 1946, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis staged their first show as a comedy team.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:28)
Jerry, now don't tell me that you're the one the police are after.

**Wyatt Cox** (2:31)
Yes, they think I'm crazy.

**SPEAKER_5** (2:32)
I just escaped from the hatchipi.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:36)
But that's a prison full of women.

**SPEAKER_7** (2:38)
Full of women? Then I must be crazy.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:41)
I don't get this at all, Jerry. What were you sent to prison for in the first place?

**SPEAKER_2** (2:44)
Reckless driving. I got six months for driving across a white line. Oh, now wait a minute.

**SPEAKER_9** (2:48)
You can't get six months for driving across a white line.

**SPEAKER_10** (2:51)
On a tennis court.

**Wyatt Cox** (2:54)
Both remained successful entertainers after their break up in 1956 until their passing. Dean in 1995 and Jerry in 2017
The US tested the first underwater atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll on this date in 1946 Of course, apart from the weaponry, it also ended up causing quite a furor with the swimsuit, the bikini.
Let's see, Puerto Rico became a Commonwealth of the US on this date in 1952 The Italian lighter Andrea Doria sank on this date in 1956 After colliding with the Swedish ship Stockholm off the New England coast, 51 people died. CBS News correspondent Douglas Edwards flew in a plane over as the Andrea Doria sank the following morning.

**Howard Duff** (3:50)
The Andrea Doria looking like a colorful but big and dead hippopotamus. The ship's three swimming pools emptied of water over the side the hard way.
And down goes the Andrea Doria.

**Wyatt Cox** (4:04)
The sinking of the Andrea Doria on this date in 1956
In 1969 President Nixon declared the Nixon doctrine, stating the US now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This was the start of the Vietnamization of the war.

**Richard Nixon** (4:22)
Before any American troops were committed to Vietnam, a leader of another Asian country expressed this opinion to me. When I was traveling in Asia as a private citizen, he said, when you are trying to assist another nation defend its freedom, US policy should be to help them fight the war. But not to fight the war for them.
Well, in accordance with this wise council, I laid down in Guam three principles as guidelines for future American policy toward Asia. First, the United States will keep all of its treaty commitments. Second, we shall provide a shield if a nuclear power threatens the freedom of a nation alive us or of a nation whose survival we consider vital to our security. Third, in cases involving other types of aggression, we shall furnish military and economic assistance when requested in accordance with our treaty commitments. But we shall look to the nation directly threatened to assume the primary responsibility of providing the manpower for its defense.
After I announced this policy, I found that the leaders of the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, South Korea, other nations which might be threatened by Communist aggression, welcomed this new direction in American foreign policy. The defense of freedom is everybody's business, not just America's business.

**Wyatt Cox** (5:52)
President Nixon on this date in 1969
Louise Brown, the first test tube baby born in Oldham, England on this date in 1978, after conception through in vitro fertilization. A few weeks later, her mother, Leslie, expressed surprise at all the attention she had received.

**SPEAKER_7** (6:11)
We got hundreds and hundreds of cards, and they were all just wishing us a lot of luck for the future.

**Wyatt Cox** (6:19)
In 1984, Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Sazhivkaya became the first woman to walk in space.
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Jordan's King Hussein, signed a declaration of the US ending their country's 46-year-old formal state of war on this date in 1994 President Clinton praising the two men.