December 7, 1941

2200 EST

NBC Blue

The Goodwill Hour (1:59)

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John J. Anthony, author of Marriage and Family Problems and How To Solve Them, offers advice to people who have relationship and family problems. The show is interrupted twice for bulletins. 0:00: Program introduction and the announcement that the program will be interrupted as necessary. Program begins. One man is having trouble with a girlfriend. A woman raising her sister's child wants to know if she should tell the child she's not her real mother. A woman divorced her husband to marry a man 22 years older and now realizes she has nothing in common with him; A husband knows his wife is mentally ill and doesn't want to put his wife in a mental institution; a woman faces financial hardship after her children are grown up and moved away. 23:43 (10:23 p.m. EST) Program interruption repeating bulletins issued before. The War Department has taken over the issuance of army news. A bulletin comes in saying that it's unclear where Germany stands in honoring the terms of the Tripartite Pact as they characterized the military actions by Japan as "clashes" rather than acts of war. 27:00: Program resumes. A young man had trouble living with his stepfather and moved out. Now he doesn't know what to do; A 38-year-old woman is having trouble keeping her new husband at home. 39:33 (10:39 p.m. EST) Program interruption for brief bulletin: President Roosevelt will address a joint session of Congress tomorrow. 40:00: Program resumes. A woman whose parents paid for 4 years of acting lessons took a menial job when she didn't get any acting jobs. She's unhappy and wants to go back to acting but her mother is ill and she doesn't want to stop working because she'll be taking money away from her parents again; A woman wants to put her ill mother-in-law in an institution once she is released from the hospital but the family is divided over this decision; A woman married for 23 years wants to take her two sons and leave her husband because of his gambling problem; A 16-yr-old boy who switched schools wants to return to his old school but his parents won't let him.