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[[top left]] RADIO CITY [[/top left]] [[top middle left]] [[image: cartoon rocking horse with "HOBBY LOBBY" on side]] [[top middle left]] [[bottom middle left]] [[newspaper clipping: picture of man and woman; caption: Strange, but true! Roberta Semple, lovely daughter of America's most famous evangelist, told Dave Elman, producer of Hobby Lobby, and all her listners exotic tales about perfumes! [[/bottom middle left]] [[bottom left]] [[newspaper clipping: picture of a man holding a head; caption: Another hobbist told about his hobby - growing human faces on pumpkins. A woman told about painting on cobwebs. A man told about fighting shark with his hands]] [[/bottom left]] [[right side]] RADIO BROADCAST STATION WJZ NEW YORK JULY 5, 1939 - 7:30 P.M. MUSIC . . . . . | (AIRPLANE FADING IN RAPIDLY - LANDS - IDLES) VOICE: | (FILTER) Flight 18 - from Cleveland - Buffalo-Chicago - arriving Gate four . . . flight 18 . . . (fading) Cleveland-Buffalo-Chicago arriving . . . . AIRPORT MANAGER: | (FADING IN) Right this way - your car is waiting for you. WILL ROGERS: | Be right with you. MANAGER : | These new planes ride a lot easier, don't they? ROGERS: | Sure . . . they'll be even better in 1932. say . . . MANAGER: | Yes? ROGERS: | If you boys ever get around to flying the oceans I want to be the first passenger. MANAGER: | I guess that's quite a ways off yet. ROGERS: | You'll be doing it one of these days. and I want to be first on your list. MANAGER: | Here's your car. | (DOOR OPEN) ROGERS: | Don't forget to put me on that list. MANAGER: | Don't worry, you'll be first. Good be. | (CAR STARTS UP . . . FADES) ATTENDENT: | (FADING IN) Say . . . who was that guy? MANAGER: | Who wast that guy? ATTENDANT: | That wanted to buy a ticket for Europe. MANAGER: | You kidding. You don't know who that was? ATTENDANT: | No. . . . He sounds a little nuts to me. MANAGER: | That was Will Rogers. | (MUSIC UP QUICK . . THEN UNDER FOLLOWING) DAVE: | Last week Will Rogers dream of a transatlantic passenger service came true - but as the giant clipper soared from continent to continent, another man sat in the seat Will Rogers reserved that day in 1931. He is Mr. W. J. Eck, assistant to the vice President of the Southern Railway System. Mr. Eck, what is you hobby? ECK: | Globe-trotting by air. DAVE: | Well Mr. Eck, before I ask you to tell us about the historic flight of the Pan American Dixie Clipper you have just made, will you tell us how you got started on your hobby? ECK: | Do you remember the Wright Brothers, Mr. Elman? DAVE: | Of course, everyone does. ECK: | My hobby started thirty-five years ago at Arlington, Virginia. The Wright Brothers had just made their first attempt at Kitty Hawk. They were going to try to fly again for government witnesses. If they were successful, it meant public recognition for their great achievement. DAVE: | And you wre there on that historic occasion. ECK: | I was. They were only in the air a short time. But when I saw them, I resolved then and there that my hobby was going to be flying. And I've been at it ever since. [[/right side]]
