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"This dramatic poem is being presented over the National Broadcasting Company's Blue Network at 4:15 p.m. Eastern Daylight Saving Time, Friday, July 4. LIFE herewith prints the full radio script in order that its readers may follow the performance at that time. It does so because its editors believe that Stephen Vincent Benet, one of America's great poets, has experimented boldly and successfully in a new technique for dramatic radio presentation while at the same time creating a fine piece of patriotic literature. In this program, sponsored by the Council for Democracy, famous actors will be the different Voices -- Henry Hull, Narrator; Howard Lindsay, Conservative Voice; Otto Preminger, Totalitarian Voice; Robert Gray, Radical Voice. Supporting the voices is an original musical score composed for a 40-piece orchestra by Vaclav Moravan. " (p. 90)
