Frank Meriwell - 2 Episodes From 1948 - Boxcars711 OTR Day28

Published: March 14, 2006, 3:01 a.m.

b'The Adventures of Frank Meriwell - 2 Episodes From 1948\\n
\\nFrank Merriwell, the much-loved fictional hero of Street and Smith\'s Tip Top Weekly, was first introduced to readers on April 18, 1896. Merriwell was the creation of writer Burt L. Standish (real name: Gilbert Patten), and embodied a new type of dime novel hero, one who relied as much upon mental as physical prowess. The Yale-educated Merriwell possessed "a body like Tarzan\'s and a head like Einstein\'s," wrote one admiring writer, and thus represented "the perfect union of brain and brawn." First broadcast over NBC from 03/26/34 to 06/22/34 and again, on NBC, from 10/05/46 until 06/04/49. A 1946 Movie was also made.'