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Many U.S. radio listeners are dissatisfied with the programs that commercial radio gives them, but don't like the idea of Government-controlled broadcasting either. In recent years a group of well-fixed pioneers (among them: Adman-Diplomat William B. Benton, Economist Beardsley Ruml, Educator Robert M. Hutchins) have been proposing another alternative: Subscription Radio (TIME...
...long been Ed's right bower and the Farm Bureau's vice president for two years. An enthusiastic student of philosophy, economics and history, Kline is a hog farmer with a distaste for colloquialisms. He has a town house in Des Moines and a farm in Benton County which boasts a swimming pool, tennis court, and gaited horses. He is an independent Republican. Deliberate and shrewd, Kline believes in a relatively low level of parity and a thriving foreign trade as the basis for continued farm prosperity...
...Mencken, cackling, venerable Sage of Baltimore, made quick response when he read a complaint that no local museum had a painting by Thomas Hart Benton. He himself had one, said Mencken, "in my cellar at this minute, gathering dust"-and he offered it to "any gallery that wants it, entirely free of all cost or expense." The Baltimore Museum of Art got the painting (an abstraction done in Benton's "earlier and more foolish days"), and Mencken asked as his reward an exemption on his income...
Chief U.S. Delegate Bill Benton patiently tried to explain the U.S. viewpoint: "We believe in unrestricted mingling of cultures-mutual sharing on the basis of equality. [We don't] want to create one common culture which would standardize the entire world...
Even ever-optimistic Bill Benton was almost discouraged. Said he: "If the aim of UNESCO is not to attain greater and greater freedom of information, then it has no world objective and hence no justification for its existence...