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Guest Don Mcneill Break The Contestant

Allen's Alley features a question about whether people are happy with this year's Pulitzer Prize winners. Guest Don McNeill joins Fred for a comedic take on the game show parody "Break The Contestant."

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The Fred Allen Show was a long-running American radio comedy program starring comedian Fred Allen and his wife Portland Hoffa. Over the course of the program's 17-year run, it was sponsored by Linit Bath Soaps, Hellmann's, Ipana, Sal Hepatica, Texaco and Tenderleaf Tea. The program ended in 1949 under the sponsorship of the Ford Motor Company.

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“Guest Don Mcneill Break The Contestant.” The Fred Allen Show. Radio broadcast, May 9, 1948.

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