which are usually heard over many of these stations from 3 to 5.15 p.m. Eastern wartime

in order that the following special broadcast may be heard.

Gillette's cavalcade of sports is on the air.

Gillette presents from the historic New Orleans the annual Sugar Bowl football game,

which, this afternoon, brings together the crimson tide of Alabama and the Blue Devils of Duke University.

This is Bill Brangle with Harry Wisney, or play-by-play reporter, greeting you for the Gillette Safety Razor Company and wishing you a victorious happy New Year.

Gillette is your radio host at the World Series, Kentucky Derby,

and many another sports classic throughout the year.

Also, Gillette's cavalcade of sports is on the air regularly every Friday night, coast to coast,

with a top flight boxing match for your entertainment.

These weekly broadcasts, as well as today's Sugar Bowl game,

are shortwave to our troops overseas through the facilities provided by the Armed Forces Radio Service.

We've been watching the pregame activities here in New Orleans.

The two teams, that is Duke and Alabama, have had their pregame warm-ups.

The Duke team wearing traditional blue jerseys with white numerals and white armbands,

and the Alabama team, of course, with the crimson jerseys and the white numeral.

It's a beautiful day here in New Orleans.

A brilliant warm southern sun is shiny.

It's been rather warm during this past week.

Yesterday, as a matter of fact, during the last 24 hours, the lowest was 64 degrees, and

the mercury reached some 78 degrees, which made it rather

warm for playing football. But overnight, we've had a bit of a change, and at the present time,

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