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Claiming that there was no immediate danger of a general European war on a large scale, Roger B. Merriman '96, Gurney professor of History, gave the fourteenth and final lecture Wednesday night in the series sponsored by the "Guardian" and broadcast over WAAB. His topic was "A Gilmpse of Europe...
Comfortably seated by their radios last week, hundreds of thousands of Britons waited patiently for a description of the second most important event of the Coronation season, the fireworks and illumination of the greatest naval review since the World War. For the scene of the broadcast, British Broadcasting Corp. had chosen the most hallowed deck in the Royal Navy, Nelson's flagship the Victory in whose cockpit he died, lying in dry-dock at Portsmouth, two miles from the five-mile quadruple row of 160 of the world's fighting ships (see map). For announcer the B.B.C. chose...
...minor business mystery. Making up for the wasted years, the industry launched its fifth annual Life Insurance Week throughout the land last week with a series of "Early Birds Breakfasts" (8:15 a. m.). Local agents collected private and public bigwigs to tone up the breakfasts, put on broadcast after dull broadcast, dug up nonagenarian policyholders as living testimonials, prodded museums and universities to feature the memorabilia of insurance, inspired sermons on the "economic, moral and social values ,of life insurance to the individual and the nation," sponsored teas, dances, dinners, lectures, concerts, fashion shows...
...sale of a new contract in another. Calvin Coolidge learned that the term could not be applied indiscriminately after a St. Louis counselor sued him and New York Life for $100,000 damages. Mr. Coolidge, then a New York Life director, had denned the word too loosely in a broadcast warning against "twisting." New York Life settled out of court. Some self-styled insurance counselors are indeed "twisters," though even more are simply insurance agents using the title as a merchandising scheme. State statute books are crammed with what insurance men call anti-twisting laws, but, based as they...
With the largest attendance in the history of the traditional spring concerts, the Glee Club last night closed its series of three presentations broadcast over station W1XAL, on the steps of Widener...