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...Governor was touched. At his regular Sunday-night broadcast, he asked his listeners to pray, then send him their advice on what he should do. Meanwhile, from his farm in Jasper County, Tex., Representative Martin Dies, 39, a mighty campaigner in his own country, announced that he would run for the Senate. So did sharp, energetic, able Gerald Mann, 34, the Attorney General, an ex-preacher and star quarterback from Southern Methodist University...
This warning was part of the obbligato of talk which the Italians supplied all last week to the rumble of Nazi guns. It was broadcast over the Italian radio...
Peter had fled by air to Athens. There he composed his declaration-his was the only true authority, etc., etc.-and tried to broadcast it to the world. The week's most pathetic irony was that Peter's words failed to get by the Greek censor-for reasons still unknown. Then Peter boarded another plane and set out for Palestine. On the way the plane was attacked by an Axis fighter, and one of Peter's Ministers was killed. But the hurt plane reached Jerusalem, a new cradle for Free Yugoslavia...
Last week 14 resourceful songwriters filed suit against NBC, CBS, National Association of Broadcasters and Broadcast Music, Inc. for $1,215,500 on the ground that while fighting American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers the broadcasters had conspired to destroy the livelihood of the composers. Forthwith ASCAP repudiated the suit. Said a spokesman: "We have plenty of troubles of our own without worrying about what those guys are going...
Once Walter Winchell nearly got Young into trouble. Winchell broadcast: "What are they holding you for, spreading peace rumors?" Spreading peace rumors in Japan is a prison offense. When the police asked what Winchell meant, Young told them: "In New York they have a different dialect from my part of the country, and I cannot understand Winchell-san's dialect...