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This week, with the help of Collaborator Edward Anthony, Schechter recounts in an anecdotal history the saga of his eight years as newschief for NBC. Entitled I Live on Air,† his masterwork is sometimes lively, sometimes arch, in describing strange doings that range from wiring the pyramids in Egypt for sound to putting on a contest among singing mice. Many are the bad aerial breaks that he recalls. After an announcement of the Macon crash, while listeners were waiting frantically to find out how many had been killed, Ben Bernie cut loose with a number that ran: "Take...
...fantastically rich Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, first cousins, began squabbling, ten years later parted. Of their contrasting characters legend has flourished ever since-Cousin Bertie McCormick, aristocratic, aloof publisher of the die-hard Republican Chicago Tribune, and Cousin Joe, masses-minded, erratic, lusty, ex-Socialist, publisher of the arch-New Deal New York Daily News. Each in his own way was a crass sensationalist. Joe got the biggest circulation in the U. S., Bertie the biggest in the Midwest. Said Friend-of-the-People Cousin Joe, onetime intimate of Bowery bums and taxi drivers: "Bertie certainly likes to crack...
...mind). Last week Dr. Cowley's crusade against Hutchinsism bore spectacular fruit. He was offered the presidency of the University of Minnesota, second largest U. S. university (15,167 full-time students), by unanimous vote of its board of regents. To Hutchins, vocational-minded, unclassical Minnesota is an arch example of what a university should not be. Cowley, delighted with the offer, indicated he would accept it and exclaimed: "Minnesota ... is one of the outstanding universities in the country...
...been out for more than a year at a time. Nominally, his offenses have been slight. Actually, his offense has been that he is one of the world's most uncompromising advocates of unlimited democracy, continuously troublesome in the imperialistic back yard of democracy's present arch-defender. He has been three times President of the Indian National Congress; next to Gandhi himself he is the most powerful leader in India. And as a leftist, undiluted by religion, he is more dangerous to British interests than Gandhi...
...Netherlands last week the Arch bishop of Utrecht and four Catholic bishops, in a pastoral letter read in every Dutch Catholic church, proclaimed their refusal to administer extreme unction or bury with Catholic rites "Liberals, Socialists, Communists and National Socialists," forbade Dutch Catholics to join Nazi groups...