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Hopes that the Harvard-Navy game would be broadcast over a Boston station were shattered last night when news came that no local station would carry the game. Both Columbia and National networks will run the encounter over a New York station, however...
...taxi stepped Lawyer Hamilton and Associate Justice Hugo LaFayette Black of the U. S. Supreme Court. With his hat pulled over his eyes and two packages of Chesterfield cigarets in his hand, Hugo Black marched through the garage and into the house by the cellar door in order to broadcast to the U. S. people his reply to the accusation that he belonged to the Ku Klux Klan...
...biggest thing that ever happened in Chevy Chase was also easily the biggest thing that happened in the U. S. last week. For an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court to broadcast on any controversial subject was unprecedented. For an Associate Justice to deal with the topic that awaited Hugo Black was wildly sensational. When he arrived in Norfolk, Va. last week after a tour of Europe and told newspaper reporters that he would not speak for fear of being misquoted (see p. 50), his prospective broadcast instantly became radio's biggest attraction since Edward VIII's abdication...
...addition to name, age, sex, race, the answers to the questions should indicate when the recipient worked last, what at, how much work he did in the previous week and year, whom he supports, whether anyone else in his family is unemployed. Franklin Roosevelt is to give a "fireside" broadcast urging all unemployed to fill out cards. The Post Office Department - whose James Aloysius Farley may by that time have resigned to head Fierce-Arrow Motor Car Co.-will return the cards to Washington, to be sorted by census bureau clerks. Mr. Biggers' only paid aids will...
...luncheon of Chicago's Executives' Club, 84-year-old Novelist Opie Read was a guest. He made a speech to 400 people, broadcast over station WJJD. Said he, "Al Dunlap and I were in the same compartment on a train traveling from Stratford-on-Avon to London. Across the aisle sat a very thoughtful-looking Englishman, and in the seat opposite was an American. The American had been talking about the different trees he saw. 'You seem to be very well acquainted with timber,' said the Englishman. 'Yes, I was brought up among them...