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...elects, its members. Mr. Chase feels that Harvard on the whole uses the club method, and that this method militates against the election of striking and original personalities. Unwilling to trust a single benevolent despot, he invents machinery of his own, a standing committee of the wisest, best, and broadcast of the faculty, transcending departmental lines, who will be very, very patient and sympathetic with the young men, and choose only the wisest, best, and broadest among them. This of course is also the club method--only Mr. Chase is happily founding his own club. The present reviewer is inclined...
Last year national advertisers paid $145,000,000 to U. S. newspapers, because a news-thirsty public bought 35,175,000 newspapers every day. Last year national advertisers paid $49,500,000 to radio broadcasters because 18,500,000 households listen to Radio's music, patter and melodrama every day. If Radio also broadcast complete news, many a listener would not bother with newspapers...
...hour's news every day. News on the Air, For a time Radio helped itself to the columns of newspapers. When the Press protested such flagrant thieving, an arrangement was made whereby Radio was supplied with reports from Associated Press, United Press and International News Service, to be broadcast with full credit. The front remained reasonably quiet until election night...
...week for Caspar, Wyo. to $1,000 a week for Yankee Network, the stations receive up to 50,000 words a day of finished news stories, ready for reading by the announcer. At almost any hour the station chooses, it can have enough fresh news for a 15-minute broadcast. It can, and occasionally does, scoop the official Press-Radio Bureau on such news as the Stoll kidnapping, the assassination of King Alexander, the extradition of Bruno Richard Hauptmann...
...closing day of the Eucharistic Congress 1,000,000 people fervently massed in Palermo Park for a pontifical mass celebrated by Cardinal Pacelli, and a long triumphal procession. Through loudspeakers at the close of the mass came the firm voice of Pope Pius XI. In a benediction broadcast to the world he said: "Only where the peace of Christ in the kingdom of Christ rules are there offers of promises. Only so, in fact, will this poor world, which we see afflicted with fraternal and regal bloodshed, be able to find true and stable peace, free from so many evils...