What happens
Constance Brooks, an English teacher at Madison High School, spends her Christmas vacation returning unwanted gifts at Sherry's department store. Her principal, Mr. Conklin, gave her a plastic weather globe figure of Atlas, and she tries to exchange it, but it becomes clear that her colleagues have also been trading gifts. Brooks visits Mr. Boynton's apartment to borrow a copy of the Atlas, and she and Walter Denman find themselves dealing with a series of confused exchanges. This is an episode of the series Our Miss Brooks, first aired on CBS Radio on December 31, 1950, starring Eve Arden.
Sherry's department store and the surrounding neighborhood during the Christmas holidays at Madison High School.
Characters: Constance Brooks, Rex Dale, Mr. Conklin, Mr. Boynton, Walter Denman, Harriet Conklin, Mrs. Davis
Listen for: Brooks's attempts to exchange the Atlas weather globe gift and the mounting confusion over who gave what to whom.
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.