Connie Brooks, an English teacher at Madison High, hopes to win the job of head of the English department from the new principal, Osgood Conklin. Her schoolmate Walter Denton asks her to help him write an impressive letter to Penelope Miller, while Connie's sweetheart, biology teacher Mr. Boynton, keeps making romantic overtures. Conklin, a stern and suspicious man, arrives at Madison High and soon begins to pry into the teachers' private lives. Eve Arden stars as Connie Brooks in this episode of Our Miss Brooks, first broadcast on CBS Radio on July 19, 1948, with Gale Gordon, Jeff Chandler and Richard Crenna in the cast.

With Connie Brooks, Mr. Boynton, Mrs. Davis, Walter Denton, Osgood Conklin, Penelope Miller, Mr. Darwin, Martha.

Listen for: Connie's dry, sharp remarks to Mrs. Davis and Walter, and the escalating mix-up as Mr. Conklin arrives at the school

First aired on July 19, 1948 on CBS Radio.

Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast.

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