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Confidentially Yours, Transradio's new Saturday supplement, was tried out for some six months in Manhattan before its network debut. Its material is gathered and sent in (sometimes in code) mainly by a special corps of nonprofessionals whose identity Transradio protects like secret agents'. Paid by the story, anywhere from $5 to $100, they number about 100, are said to be located in all U. S. State capitals, in 20 foreign capitals, in other likely listening posts. Three Confidentially Yours contributors are supposed to be former U. S. Cabinet mem bers, another a German officer...
...would have created a stench in neutral noses, was the height of British suspicion. Fear that Uruguay or Argentina might become an ally, and turn the interned Spee against Germany, constituted a political answer (see p. 18). None of these answers was approved by non-Nazi naval men, whose code demands that a ship of war shall continue fighting just as long as she can do some damage to the enemy...
...Opera even made the 20th-century radio, when a company under Conductor Josef Honti gave it a first broadcast over NBC's Red network. John Gay's ribald lines had been studio-broken, but there were still some 18th-Century cracks which strained the broadcasting code ("Yes, indeed, the Sex is frail. But the first time a woman is frail, she should be somewhat nice methinks, for then or never is the time to make her Fortune.") U. S. radio listeners found its gangster Captain Macheath, his moll Polly Peacham, and its other ballad-singing jailbirds as fetching...
...Berlin, before the Academy, Lawyer Frank defined Germany's new code as "war law," predicted that these Nazi principles of law would soon become a part of world law. "The maxim 'Right is whatever profits a nation; wrong is whatever harms it,' marked the beginning of our legal work," Dr. Frank keynoted. "Pale phantoms of objective justice do not exist for us any more. . . . The transition from the normal status of National Socialist legal thinking to thinking in terms of the law of war is being accomplished without grave upheavals. . . . The decisive principle is, who is stronger...
...bait for players than mere traveling expenses and $30-a-day suites. Some tournament promoters have been known to offer lump-sum traveling expenses that could take the player to Buenos Aires and back. Now & then a well-heeled promoter has even been known to get around the amateur code by making a friendly little wager-for instance, a $500 bet that the player cannot jump over his tennis racket...