Thelma and Lowell's Diary: Jan. 2, 1943

Actor Ronald Colman emcees a war bonds program

It was a warm Saturday, Thelma wrote. While Lowell worked a shift from 3 to 11 p.m., she cleaned the apartment, then listened to the radio in the evening as she waited for him to come home. It was after midnight when he got there.

One of the highlights of radio programming that day as listed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune was “Over Here,” a program sp…