Things I have learned listening to 1949-1950 "Dragnet" radio shows

[Lumpy]

@Jim_s_Son

Depends on where you ended up. Babe Ruth was put in St Mary’s Industrial School for Boys when he was an uncontrollable seven year old. As an adult he said Brother Gilbert and Brother Matthias were the finest men he knew and helped raised money for the school. He was trained to be a tailor.

Like I said, luck. There were good ones and really, really horrible ones. God help you if you were in one where the staff believed in sadistic corporal punishment or were pedophiles.

@RealityChuck

Probably the most appalling Christmas episode in TV or radio (it was shown on both), not just for its story, but for its lesson:

If you kill your friend before Christmas, you get all his toys!

Sorry, reference?