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Gray Flannel Armor by X Minus One

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🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Relic Radio Science Fiction features another story from X Minus One this week. From January 9, 1958, here's Gray Flannel Armor. Listen to more from X Minus One https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/e55e1c7a-e213-4a20-8701-21862bdf1f8a/SciFi866.mp3 Download SciFi866 | Subscribe | Spotify | Support Relic Radio Science Fiction Your support makes this show possible. If you’d like to help, visit donate.relicradio.com for more information. Thank you.

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0:00.0

Relic Radio

0:02.1

This is Relic Radio, sci-fi, old-time radio, science fiction stories from relicradio.com. Countdown for blast off.

0:34.6

X minus 5, 4, 3, 2, X-minus 1, fire. From the far horizons of the unknown come tales of new dimensions of the unknown come tales of new dimensions in time and space.

1:13.6

These are stories of the future.

1:16.1

Adventures in which you'll live in a million could be years on a thousand maybe worlds.

1:21.4

The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction magazine, presents...

1:27.1

X minus one.

1:36.3

Tonight, gray flannel armor.

1:44.0

But first, hear this.

1:46.7

Everyone knows about and admires Bob Hope's frequent globe-trotting trips

1:50.5

to entertain our servicemen in far-flung corners of the earth.

1:54.2

But have you ever wondered what it would be like to actually travel halfway around the world

1:58.1

with one of America's greatest comedians, accompanied by an all-star

2:01.7

troop of entertainers? For this past Christmas, Bob Hope and Company set out on a 12-day tour of

2:07.5

the Far East, entertaining servicemen in Honolulu, Okinawa, Korea, and Japan, and NBC's Monitor

2:14.8

went along, with microphones open all the way.

2:18.6

This weekend, you'll find yourself a Voyager on this exciting trip,

2:22.8

along with Bob, Jane Mansfield, Hedahopper, and Jerry Colonna

2:26.4

as Monitor broadcasts highlights from Operation Entertainment.

2:29.8

And this is only part of the top variety of information and entertainment monitor brings you all weekend long beginning Friday night.

2:35.9

So start your weekend right with Monitor on Friday night,

2:38.6

and stay with Monitor all weekend long for celebrities, music, news, and sports over most of these same NBC radio stations.

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