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...days later Sir John Reith, chief of British Broadcasting Corp., decided that he, too, would give the Basque children a treat. To the tent-city near Southampton where 2,000 of the refugees are being housed, he went with a radio van. When news came that Bilbao had fallen (see p. 20), Sir John, against the advice of the camp's Basque officials, decided to broadcast the bad news...
...better to tell the children the news after they were fed and before they went to bed so they could sleep on it." When the first shock had passed 50 of the children sent apologies to Camp Commandant Henry Brinton, declared: "Some of us decided the news was being broadcast by a person of Fascist sympathies...
...Canton Island, near the sunrise end of the shadow path, confused frigate birds came in from the sea when darkness fell. In Peru, at the sunset end, bats flitted around the fast-working scientists. Radio crews of NBC at Canton Island and of CBS in Peru were able to broadcast lyrical descriptions. The sun's corona was almost circular, a form associated with the high sunspot activity currently manifested by the sun. Exulted white-thatched Clyde Fisher of Manhattan's Hayden Planetarium : "This was the most beautiful of four totalities I have observed...
...Commencement Day exercises at Princeton will be broadcast tomorrow from 12 to 12:45 o'clock in the afternoon. President Dodds will be heard conferring honorary degrees upon the distinguished recipients, among whom will be Dr. Paul Van Zeeland...
John G. Winant, former Governor of New Hampshire, will be the orator, and plans have been made to broadcast his oration over state W1XAL. The poet will be Daniel Sargent '13, Instructor in History and Literature at Harvard...