Special Daytime Radio Programming
On Monday the 15th, most stations preempted their regular programming from 12:15 to 12:30 to carry President Truman's address to the Advisory Board of the Pan American Union in honor of Pan American Day. At 4:15 PM, WJZ broadcast a program of music performed by the New York Institute for Education of the Blind. At 4:30 PM, WABC aired a special Passover program featuring Dr. Jakob Kahn.
On Tuesday from 3:30 to 4:00 PM, The WQXR program "What's On Your Mind?" presented a forum discussion on "Could Organized Science Bring World Unity?" The participants included Percy W. Bridgman of Harvard, the 1946 Nobel Prize winner in Physics; Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and delegate to UNESCO Anne O'Hare McCormick; Times science editor Waldemar Kaempffert and Robert S. Morison. Iphigene Bettman was the moderator.
From Tuesday to Friday that week in commemoration of Holy Week, veteran Broadway and film actress Jane Cowl read selections from the Bible on WEAF at 12:30 PM. The Sunday Herald Tribune reported that she would be accompanied by "background music of an ecclesiastical nature.”
WNYC, WLIB, WMCA and WQXR carried U.N. Security Council sessions throughout that week.