
1953 Christmas Seal Campaign, Celebrity Spots

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Public service announcements from celebrities urging the public to buy Christmas Seals to fund the National Tuberculosis Association.
Side 1:
Stan Kenton
Rosemary Clooney
Guy Mitchell
Don Wilson
Alice Faye and Phil Harris
Rod O'Connor
Bob Hope
Alice Faye
Phil Harris
Margaret Whiting
Joni James
Burl Ives
Dinah Shore
Side 2:
Tony Curtis
Edward G. Robinson
Broderick Crawford
Dan Dailey
Walter Pidgeon
Pat O'Brien
Richard Widmark
Edward Arnold
Eleanor Parker
William Holden
Jeanette MacDonald
Ken Carpenter
Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection
WNYC archives id: 150740
Municipal archives id: LT4733
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This is Stan Kenton you know on a record show seventeen minutes really isn't very long it's time to spend maybe half a dozen records about the time it takes to get a haircut or maybe read a magazine story but you know every seventeen minutes someone dies from T.V. to Regulus TB attacks one hundred fifteen thousand of us each year kills more than all other infectious diseases combined you help protect yourself your family and your community from T.V. when you buy and use Christmas Eells your Christmas seal dollars are finding T.V. free every day Christmas seals help you pay for X. rays and help you seek out those hundred fifty thousand Americans who have TB and don't know it who are spreading TB to others and maybe they're spreading to you or to me and Christmassy as pay for medical research health education and rehabilitation for those who are making the comeback from TB So next time you listen to half a dozen records or get a haircut or read a magazine story member of the seventeen minutes and remember to buy and use Christmas Eales This is Rosemary Clooney ever wonder what you buy when you buy Christmas feels each year after birth the most Association sends us a Christmas see a letter all of us mean the answer and that gets stuck away on the desk or on the mantel and we forget it if you've misplaced yours please hunted up and answer it because Christmas seals are our way of fighting TB tuberculosis our country's number one infectious killer TB attacks one hundred fifteen thousand Americans each year kills one of us every seventeen minutes. But we help protect our families our kids our friends and ourselves from tuberculosis when we buy and use Christmas seals Christmas seals fight TB by helping to pay for chest X. rays rehabilitation health education and medical research and that's what we buy when we buy Christmas Eve we're helping to make all our lives a little safer from this dread disease and so if you haven't answered your Christmassy a letter well you do today thank you hardy folks this is Guy Mitchell you know when we answer our question to see a letter we're not just doing a good deed for one day because Christmas feels fight TB tuberculosis each day of the year maybe you didn't know that TB is our country's number one infectious killer but to break your losses takes an American life every seventeen minutes Christmas sales help paper chest X. rays to detect TB in its early stages when it's easiest to cure and Christmas sales help pay for their health education rehabilitation and medical research sciences constant probe to find better ways to stamp out TB tuberculosis can attack at any age even kids one hundred fifteen thousand new victims are struck down by TB annually but when we buy and use Christmas sales folks we're helping the protect our families our friends and ourselves from the stress disease so that Christmas a letter in the narrative A Thanks a lot. This is Don Wilson did you ever wonder why do you buy when you buy and use Christmas seals Christmas seals fight t b tuberculosis our country's number one infectious killer tuberculosis attacks one hundred fifteen thousand Americans each year kills one American every seventeen minutes T.B. kills more people than all other infectious diseases combined it strikes of any age even children but TB can be prevented and it can be cured progress in the fight against TB since the first Christmas Eve it was sold as a matter of saving of six million lives yes Christmas seals fight tuberculosis through chest X. rays health education rehabilitation and medical research sciences constant probe to find new and better ways to combat TB And that's what we're buying when we buy and use Christmas ceo's we're helping to make all of us our families our friends our communities ourselves a little safer from T V When we answer our Christmassy a letter if you haven't answered yours want to do it today. This is Alice day and Phil Harris you know each year Phil and I remembered to put a couple of Christmas seals on the Christmas cards we send and this year's Christmas sale is a honey it's a picture of the cutest little guy ever saw feel and I know how important Christmas feels our Christmas seals fight to be tuberculosis TB strikes one hundred fifteen thousand Americans each year it takes a life every seventeen minutes but sense folks bought the first Christmas seal progress in the fight against TB has meant a saving of six million lives and maybe the life of someone we know or love perhaps the life of a child because TB can strike anyone at any age but when we buy and use Christmas feels wear helping to save lives so how about if you haven't answered your Christmas seal letter hunted up and do it the day we answered ours Alice gave it to me to mail and that's one letter that I didn't carry around the week before I remembered to look for a mailbox so please don't you forget even less is Rod O'Connor friends our country's number one infectious killers tuberculosis TB attacks one hundred fifteen thousand Americans each year it kills one of us every seventeen minutes but you help protect your family your friends and yourself from this insidious disease when you buy and use Christmas Eve Christmas feels fight tbs through chest X. rays health education rehabilitation and medical research won't you answer your Christmas eve a letter today this is Bob Christmas Eve I hope reminding you that if none of us ever bought Christmas sales a lot of us wouldn't be here today progress in the fight against tuberculosis since the first Christmas it was sold has met a saving of six million lives yes Christmas seals fight TB yet TB is still our country's number one infectious killer tuberculosis takes one American life every seventeen minutes. You have to make all of us a little safer from TB when you buy and use Christmas sales if you haven't answered your Christmas see a letter How about getting it in the mail today this is Alice say are you or someone you love that one in a thousand Americans who will get tuberculosis next year you hope not but you can do more than hope you can buy Christmas deals to make it a little less likely such a thing will happen to you you buy hope for yourself and others when you buy Christmas feels. This is Phil Harris when placer show you can't lose when you buy Christmas seals you win added protection against tuberculosis when you place your money on these little symbols of health but they've shown that they can save lives six million in the last forty six years yep you've got a sure thing when you buy Christmas sales this is Margaret Whiting Have you ever realize that merely by answering a letter you may save someone's life I mean that Christmassy a letter that you've received the millions of Christmassy letters we Americans have answered in the past forty six years have helped to save the lives of six million Americans please answered by Christmas do you friends I'm Joni James Christmas feels fight to the tuberculosis our country's number one infectious killer Christmas seals help to protect us all from T.V. So if you haven't answered your Christmas eve a letter well you do it please this is Burl Ives you've heard about casting your bread upon the waters and that's what happens when you buy Christmas seals what comes back is protection for you and your loved ones from tuberculosis there's no better health investment than Christmas seals. This is done is sure about Christmas sure a little of your Christmas spirit with those who need it most by Christmas Eve and you may help to save the life of someone from tuberculosis next year give the gift of good health Christmas seals friends this is Tony Curtis did you ever go on a treasure hunt Well maybe when you were a kid you used to look for colored eggs on Easter morning or maybe your pretend that you found an ancient pirate map and charted a boat to the Spanish Main well a kind of treasure hunt I'm suggesting isn't as glamorous as that but it is important look around your home in your desk or on the mantle wherever you might have misplaced that letter you received from your tuberculosis association your Christmassy letter Christmas seals fight our country's number one infectious killer TB TB attacks one hundred fifteen thousand Americans each year kills one of us every seventeen minutes it takes for my son help sometimes our lives the greatest treasure we have Christmas seals help prevent TB and help to cure it through chest X. rays health education rehabilitation and medical research so if you haven't answered your Christmassy letter go on a little treasure hunt and find it and answer it today help keep your treasure of good health. This is Edward G. Robinson once every year our tuberculosis Association has asked us to buy Christmas heroes maybe you will never have to be very close as our country's number one infectious killer I hope not but every you had tuberculosis strikes one hundred fifteen thousand of us kills one American every seventeen minutes Christmas seals help keep us all safe from TB by helping to pay for chest X. rays finding TB and it's an early stage is when it's easiest to kill Christmas seals help pay for medical research scientists constant pro for better ways to combat to be Christmassy is help pay for health education teaching us how best we can prevent the and Christmas sales help pay for rehabilitation making the road back easier for those folks who've had to be but sure Christmas sales do a truly wonderful job in protecting us all from tuberculosis so if you happen than say your Christmas the letter I want to do it today thank you this is brought to Crawford If you ever wonder when you're buying Christmas seals watch you buy a Christmas eels fi T. be tuberculosis that's our country's number one infectious killer tuberculosis attacks one hundred fifteen thousand Americans each year TB kills more people than all other infectious diseases combined it strikes at any age and even children but TB can be prevented and it can be cured progress in the fight against TB since the first Christmas Eve was sold has meant a saving of six million lives Christmas Eales fight tuberculosis through chest X. ray health education rehabilitation medical research scientists constant probe to find new and better ways to combat to be that's what we're buying when we buy and use the Christmas Seals we're helping to make all of us a little safer from to be when we answer our Christmassy letters if you haven't answered yours please what you do it today. Francis's than daily all of us like to sing and dance in our own way little signs in all of us of the kick there isn't living but TB tuberculosis can take the kick out of TB attacks one hundred fifteen thousand Americans each year TB kills more people than all other infectious diseases combined one person every seventeen minutes and TB can strike anyone but progress in the struggle against TB since the first Christmas seal was sold has meant a saving of six million lives that's why it's important for you and for me to buy and use Christmas seals Christmas seals fight tuberculosis through health education chest X. ray rehabilitation and medical research for good reasons why TB has less chance of getting out you and me and our families and friends so if you haven't answered your Christmassy a letter what you do it today help keep that little song and dance alive in all of us this is Walter Pigeon Christmas seals help prevent tuberculosis and also wages and curing it through chest X. rays and health education rehabilitation and medical research if you haven't answered your Christmassy letter go on a little treasure hunt and find it won't you and answer it today's support the Christmas seal effort in this way you will be protecting your own gift of good health this is Pat O'Brien now here at this time you're a regular that does the ads and mail you a Christmas a letter a letter you wonder just what you do buy when you buy Christmas Eve Well Christmas there are five TB tuberculosis countries number one infected killer TB strike one hundred fifteen thousand. And we're helping to protect I've planned that friend and I sell them to back when we buy a new Christmas. Friends this is Richard Widmark it's pretty hard to realize how many lives six million people represent but that's how many lives that progress in the fight against tuberculosis has saved since the first Christmas seal was sold Christmas seals fight TB through chest X. ray health education rehabilitation and medical research yet to be still kills one American every seventeen minutes so if you haven't answered your Christmassy a letter well you do it today this is it went on or Christmas is a time of giving when you buy Christmas Eve as you give a chance to one hundred fifty thousand Americans who have active tuberculosis and don't no one give them a chance to be found and put on the treatment to help save their lives and when you help them you help yourself by Christmas Eve. This is Eleanor Parker in the next seventy minutes someone in this country will dive tuberculosis you make it a little less likely it will be you or one of your loved ones if you buy Christmas SEE YOU FOR before Christmas seals began the death rate from T.B. was one every five minutes by Christmas the. This is William Holden Are you sure are you sure you don't have TB make sure by buying Christmas seals to help finance the X. ray campaigns that can give you life saving knowledge give yourself the gift of a better chance at good health this Christmas by buying Christmas Eve This is Jeanette McDonald did you know that one hundred fifteen thousand Americans were discovered to have tuberculosis last year and did you know that Christmas steal money helped to get them under treatment to save their lives but the greatest gift to the Most people at the least cost this Christmas by Christmas sealed. This is Can carpenter thirty thousand Americans died of tuberculosis last year they wouldn't have had to die if they'd been found earlier or provided from getting TB in the first place your Christmas sale dollars help do both jobs by Christmas seals.