It's one o'clock and here is Mary Margaret McBride a radio biography - Ware, Susan (New York University Press, 2005)
Includes bibliographical references and index
"Here comes McBride" -- Mary Margaret's radio technique -- "Under cover of daytime" -- Mary Margaret's bond with listeners -- "The appetite as voice" -- Doing the products -- Listening to lives -- A Missouri childhood -- Stella -- The journalist and the writer -- Men, marriage, and sex -- Affluence and depression -- "I murdered grandma" -- Citrus follies -- The war years -- Eleanor Roosevelt, Mary Margaret McBride, and postwar politics -- Television -- The last show : May 14, 1954 -- Cookbooks, columns, and commentary -- "Good-bye, y'all" -- Epilogue : talk shows, then and now