What happens
Bill Stern hosts this 1942 episode of the Bill Stern Sports Newsreel, sponsored by Colgate, and his guest is trumpeter Harry James. The broadcast opens with baseball scores and a short item about Yankees manager Joe McCarthy. The main story follows a circus horse in Beaumont, Texas, who saves a six-year-old boy from being trampled during a performance, and the city later honors the horse with a memorial. Harry James then describes how the boy grew up to become a trumpet player, and the episode closes with a few brief sports news items.
A 1942 radio broadcast of the Bill Stern Sports Newsreel, with sports news and stories set in baseball stadiums, a Texas circus in 1920, and Beaumont, Texas.
Characters: Bill Stern, Harry James, Joe McCarthy
Listen for: The story of the circus horse in Beaumont and Harry James's account of how that event led him to become a trumpeter.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.