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Shortly after it was organized, MBS attracted WLW in Cincinnati, went on to add John Shepard Ill's Colonial network and the Don Lee network on the West Coast to its chain. Big recommendation for Mutual with advertisers was the fact that it insisted only on the purchase of its three big units, WOR, WGN, WLW, with other units to be added at pleasure. Not until June 1936 did it reach a coast-to-coast status. That occurred when CBS offered to buy the Don Lee network, which turned to cooperative Mutual instead...
...launch her expansive venture she mortgaged a piece of inherited real estate. This week her syndicated shopping column, Buy-Lines, appears in 32 top U.S. newspapers with total circulation of 9,000,000. Among her clients: the New York Times, Detroit Free Press, Washington Star, Des Moines Register, Cincinnati Enquirer, New Orleans Times-Picayune, Memphis Commercial Appeal, Seattle Times...
...ball at wealthy Mrs. Herbert Shipman's plushy villa in Newport is her new neighbor, Gertrude Niesen, chatelaine of the Oelrichs mansion. / / Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 24 and twice a father, won his appeal to Washington for draft deferment as a family man. / / When the chorus of Cincinnati Summer Opera Association, claiming $400 for overtime rehearsals, walked out just before the curtain rose, the management hastily invoked arbitration and put the disputed money in escrow. The stakeholder: Gladys Swarthout, who went on as Carmen with the money in her bosom...
...Poet Carl Sandburg, Boston University Professor Horace Reynolds, Radio Singers Frank Luther and Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives, Mary Wheeler of Paducah, Ky., Ernest C. Krohn of St. Louis, Author Carl Carmer, "Daddy of the Blues" W. C. Handy-did not know it. Apparently it was never published. But Cincinnati rivermen remembered Hot Shot, so did Captain D. T. Wright of the Waterways Journal in St. Louis. Two Memphis experts-Joe Curtis and Charles L. Maughan-narrowed the authorship of the song down to a blind Missouri Negro who sang at boat landings around 1914. Of the music, nobody remembered...
...mere stopgap in relation to the South's increasing needs. FPC says these links can be built in six months; others say material shortages may mean it will take two years. OPM indicated that priorities would be granted wherever needed. An eighth interconnection-between TVA and Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co.-was "recommended" (FPC is wary of "ordering" another independent Government agency to do anything...