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George Washington Slept Here - broadcast from Fort Devons, Mass

Jack Benny · December 20, 1942 · 29 min · 3,235 words

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The Great Nut Plate Program coming to you from Fort Devon's near Boston, Massachusetts, and starring Jack Benny with Mary Livingston, Dennis A. Rochester, you're through Lee Don Wilson, and our guest conductor, Abe Lyman. You know, every homemaker likes to do her very best job by feeding her family well, but sometimes it's not always easy, especially with so many food products being restricted.

Yes, you really have to be ingenious these days to give your family the nourishment they must have to keep this. But here's a plan that will help. Serve your folks more whole grain cereal. For whole grain cereals like grape nuts flakes are plentiful, nutritious, and grifty too.

In every helping of toasty brown grape nuts flakes and milk, you get nourishment you need every day. You get proteins, minerals, and two of the important B vitamins, niacin and vitamin B1, for good appetite, steady nerves, and energy.

So plan right now to build more breakfasts around nourishing, plentiful and delicious, great nuts flakes. From Texas played by the orchestra. And now, ladies and gentlemen, from Fort Devon's near the historic city of Boston, Massachusetts, we bring you that leftover bag from the Boston Tea Party, Jack Benny!

Yes, sir, thank you, thank you. Hello again, this is Jack Benny talking. And, Don, that was a very clever introduction. A leftover bag from the Boston Tea Party. You sure like to rib your old boss, eh, Donny?

Yes, Jack, because I realize that you have a grand sense of humor. I see. Well, Don, remember last Christmas when I gave you that nice fat check? I certainly do, Jack. Well, this year you'll be lucky if I have your girdle retreaded.

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