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Shortage Of Nurses Overseas

A genuine nurse from Virginia comes on the program to talk about nursing education. The show's visitor is the face of the Cadet Nursing Corps poster campaign, and it's clear she's not a professional performer. Lum gets really angry over a newspaper story that was written about his singing.

Lum and Abner was an American network radio comedy program created by Chester Lauck and Norris Goff that was produced from 1931 to 1954. Modeled on life in the small town of Waters, Arkansas, near where Lauck and Goff grew up, the show proved immensely popular. In 1936, Waters changed its name to "Pine Ridge" after the show's fictional town.

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“Shortage Of Nurses Overseas.” Lum and Abner. Radio broadcast, January 23, 1945.

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