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...them over the plate for the Washington Senators for 21 delirious summers. Most of the time since age caught up with his mighty right arm, forcing his retirement from the pitcher's box in 1927, Walter Johnson has raised pigs & cows on his Maryland farm. Last summer he broadcast the Senators' home games. As a broadcaster he was lousy but so great was his personal popularity that he twanged through the summer. In 1938 Walter Johnson ran for the Montgomery County (Md.) Board of Commissioners. He was the only Republican elected. Last week the Big Train announced...
What Captain Brown might have heard, reported in good faith, and perhaps expanded on later, was a snatch of a CBS broadcast that night by Newscaster Edwin C. Hill, a lurid, present-tense yarn of the long-past sinking of the Republic in 1909 - first major sea disaster in which radio was used as a distress signal: "Fog is all about . . . impenetrable murk . . . hysterical shriek . . . crash and grinding . . . frightening darkness . . . shouts and screams . . . women and children aboard ... C Q D ... C Q D*. ..." As Captain Brown recalled whatever he did hear, "they seemed terribly excited. . . . It made me sick...
Until 1938, serious, civic-minded WNYC had no time for comedy. But that January, New York City's new City Council replaced its old Board of Aldermen, and WNYC moved in to broadcast the sessions. In no time this unique program had an estimated 750,000 listeners. East Side stores, bars, cabbies, business executives, housewives tuned it in regularly. There were arguments fit to kill, rare old Fourth-Ward oratory, Tweedledums-&-dees all over the house. One week listeners might be treated to an afternoon of old Roman allegory, in re the city's garbage policy. Democrat Hugh...
...labor station, WEVD (named for Eugene V. Debs), offered free air to councilmen after meetings. A Fusionist, a Republican and a Laborite showed up, talked about yardstick milk plants, home rule, unfinished business. But with no Democrat on hand to make a go of it, this after-innings broadcast was weak & watery. Tammany cooks had spoiled the broth...
...United States is being held in reserve as the residual source of supplies for the Allies," Alvin H. Hansen Lucias N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy at the Business School, declared in the Guardian broadcast Saturday on "The Problem of the War Boom...