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...Harvard debaters will argue the affirmative of the question, "Resolved, That America needs a stronger central government." Each side is given two ten-minute speeches and a five-minute rebuttal. J. M. Swigert, debating coach, said the debate, lasting about an hour, will be broadcast over the nation-wide network of the Columbia Broadcasting System on Friday, between 3 and 4 o'clock instead of 2.30 to 3.30 o'clock, as previously announced...
...Stanford debate, following the successful broadcast of a debate with Chicago last spring, is the first coast-to-coast radio argument ever held in this country. It is to be followed by the transoceanic debate with Oxford University next week. Both hook-ups present many technical difficulties, overcome in a long period of experiment...
...American radio stations at Cristobal and Miami broadcast the SOS. Six airplanes set out from the Naval base at Coco Solo, C. Z. The minesweeper Swan was ordered to patrol off Cartagena, Colombia. Pilot Herbert Boy, a German War flyer and chief pilot of Scadta air lines, searched from Barranquilla. For two and a half days there was no trace of the shipwrecked men; hope was nearly given up. Then a carpenter's mate on the bridge of the Swan sighted the drifting lifeboat...
Radio announcer of that game for Columbia Broadcasting Co. was staccato Edward ("Ted") Husing. Sharing with many football experts an impression that Wood's strategies were not such as could be expected from a Phi Beta Kappa quarterback, Announcer Husing described his play as "putrid." Harvard men wrote letters of protest. Other listeners thought it a particularly flagrant example of two failings common among sports announcers -using words without knowing what they mean, criticizing instead of reporting. Harvard's Athletic Director William Bingham wrote to President William Paley of Columbia Broadcasting Co. to say that Announcer Husing might...
Members of the German Sing-Song, conducted by J. M. Hawkes '26, instructor of German, will broadcast a half hour program tonight from station WBZ between 7.45 and 8.15 o'clock...