Tries To Get Poetic License
Lum phones up the Town Hall because he wants to get a 'Poetic License.
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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“Tries To Get Poetic License.” Lum and Abner. Radio broadcast, June 11, 1942.