Sundown

Suspents. And the producer of radio's outstanding theatre of thrills, the master of mystery and adventure, William N. Robeson. For years and years and years, the Western story has been as stylized as a Punch and Judy show.

There were the good guys and the bad guys, the blonde school marm and the brunette dancehall girl. And there was all Texas slim who loved old paint more than he did either of these females.

They were one-dimensional characters with no more depth than the page in which they were printed or the film in which they were photographed. Then something happened to the Western, something which had existed in the Old West all the time.

People, real people, each with good in him and bad, people with human frailty and human strength. Around such a person is our Western story of suspense told. Listen, listen then as Jackie Kalk stars in sundown, which begins in exactly one minute.

Memo on medals, information about our military awards and decorations. The awarding of American medals had its beginning during the Revolutionary War. Certain military and naval commanders were presented gold medals to commemorate their victories. The first medal in our nation's history was given to General George Washington after he had forced the British to evacuate Boston.

That medal is now in the Boston Public Library, where it was placed on exhibit in 1876, 100 years after the historic event it commemorates. Technically, early medals were not decorations in the strictest sense. They honored both the victorious event and the officer in charge.

Also, they were not designed to be worn, as later medals were. Therefore they were presented in a suitable case for safe keeping. What we now know as the Purple Heart Medal was originally a badge of cloth material, specified in Washington's establishing order to be a figure of a heart in purple cloth or silk,