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TIME erred (perhaps only slightly) in saying that Col. Lindbergh in his broadcast speech represented "everybody." Although this is of no interest to the Colonel (or to TIME, or posterity) I beg to say that he did not represent...
...Columbia Broadcasting System at once asked the British Admiralty to let them have this eminent prisoner for a broadcast. The Admiralty hemmed & hawed. It took Berlin only 48 hours to trump Mr. Churchill's ace. There CBS was supplied with a voice which said it belonged to Captain Herbert Schultze, commander of the U-48 which sank the Philbine. In reply to urbane Mr. Churchill this voice said: "He had apparently got my position wrong...
...knew that the Vatican, neutral in the War, was concerned about U. S. neutrality. Bishop Sheil had just returned from a visit to Rome, had hotfooted to Washington for a two-hour lunch in the White House. It then became known that his C. Y. 0. speech would be broadcast and that it would uphold the Administration, denounce Father Coughlin...
From the new Cunarder Mauretania on her maiden voyage last June, MBS staged a special ship-to-shore broadcast, during which MBS's special features director, George Wilfred ("Johnny") Johnstone, who crossed on the Mauretania to conduct the broadcast, jarred the air waves by referring to the new ship as Aguitania. For this slip, Johnny Johnstone took a round kidding, especially from Variety's puckish Radio Editor Bob Landry. Last fortnight, however, Editor Landry had occasion to be thankful for Johnny Johnstone's Mauretania boner...
...fingers crossed about a war boom. One of U. S. industry's most influential spokesmen, President Howard Coonley of National Association of Manufacturers (also Chairman of the Advisory Committee of American Standards Association, which is trying to eliminate bottlenecks by promoting standardization) took time out to broadcast : ". . . We have no illusions. . . . Economic chaos and years of crushing depression are [war's] inevitable aftermath. . . . ultimately, no one can escape the ruin...