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Family Theater: The Last Smash

Family Theater · July 7, 1954 · 28 min · 4,361 words

The transcript of “The Last Smash”, an episode of Family Theater first broadcast July 7, 1954. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Thanksgiving Radio plays Family Theater free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Family Theatre presents Gene Hagen and tonight's special guest, General Carlos Romulo. From Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theatre presents the last smash starring Gene Hagen. And now here is your host, the former ambassador from the Philippines and President of the United Nations General Assembly, General Carlos Romulo.

Thank you, Tony Lefrano. Family Theatre's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention A practice that must become an important part of our lives if we are to win peace for ourselves, peace for our families and peace for the world.

Family theater urges you to pray. Pray together as a family. And now to our transcribed drama, The Last Smash, starring Gene Hagen as Anne. Everybody's got a monster.

To one person it might be a war. To another of us. Maybe yours is a business where you're a mortgage on your house. But everybody's got one. Mine was a cyclotron. You can hear it now.

Tons of concrete and mica and steel and whatever other elements it took to build it. And I suppose you'd have to think of the building housing it. And it's a brain. The Mark 14 computer is part of the monster tool.

It inspired nightmares at machine. Nightmares full of scenes that made Hiroshima the great and terrible test explosions of the 1950s and 60s, but pale by comparison. And toward the end, I would look at my monster in the daytime and see visions of the end of the world.

I remember the day I first thought it was September the 26th, 1975. I had just been accepted to the position of recording secretary, the Guffet's Sir Tom and Research Foundation. It took a long time to build this much of our machine.

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