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TIME has been read in strange places under strange conditions but never until this month by a radio reporter waiting on a battlefield to broadcast carnage. Good fortune led me to pocket my unread copy of TIME as I started for the French frontier farm from which I had planned to describe the battle of Irun to Columbia's listeners -with sound effects by the combatants. The effects began soon after my microphone was installed between a haystack and a cornfield and with them came incessant shot & shell. The rapidly shifting fighting front had placed my haystack in direct...
...campaign functionary was stocky, bespectacled Hill Blackett, president of the potent Chicago advertising firm of Blackett-Sample-Hummert, Inc. Titled Director of Public Relations, his job was to broadcast the Republican message by radio, cinema and billboard...
Meanwhile the vast Dutch East Indies on the other side of the globe and diked-in little Holland had both tuned every available radio set to hear the Royal Family broadcast officially how they all felt about the engagement of Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina, Princess of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Doctor of Philosophy and honorary Doctor of Letters, to Prince Bernhard Leopold Frederic Eberhard Jules Curt Charles Godfrey Peter von Lippe-Biesterfeld, a sportsmanly apprentice employed without pay by the colossal German Dye Trust I. G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft...
...love him!" broadcast Crown Princess Juliana to her future subjects. "Thank you for your congratulations and your homage. We are very happy. We have known each other more than a year. We first met during the winter sports [in Germany] and afterwards several times in Holland. We came to be on very good terms. These present hours wherein we've been shown so much kindness are the finest of our mutual life...
Just as he lands his job on a big-time program, Kit's family sees through his insults, she through his songs. Unhappily obstinate, she heads for Arizona and marriage to the bounder. How Pete, in the middle of his first broadcast before a swank crowd, succeeds in stopping her is too ridiculous to be funny: While his partner holds the radio station at bay by pretending to have a gun, Crooner Pete breaks off singing, babbles impassioned pleas to Kit over...