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...hearing is yet scheduled to approve the purchase of KABC for $55,000, but when and if the F.C.C. does approve both deals, the two stations will presumably be taken over by the Frontier Broadcasting Co. which was incorporated for $10,000 last month by Mr. & Mrs. Roosevelt and an experienced broadcasting man named Harry Alexander Hutchinson. "Hutch," an extremely reticent Arkansan of 38, lanky, suave, slick-haired, has been in the radio business for 14 years, most recently with Hearst Radio, Inc. He will be general manager of the, new chain...
...merely acting as a front for William Randolph Hearst. According to Elliott's friends, however, the move represents an attempt to free himself from the exploitation of his name which has attended his other business ventures. Asked to clarify the matter last week, Radioman Roosevelt stiffly announced: "The Frontier Broadcasting Co. is being wholly financed by Mr. & Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt. . . . Further plans . . . will be announced as they develop...
...have had lesser "polio" epidemics this year: Michigan, home of Dr. Max Peet of the University of Michigan, who has advocated as a polio-preventive spraying the noses of children with a solution of zinc sulphate (TIME, July 5); Buffalo, which has posted guards along the 35-mile Niagara frontier on the chance that the epidemic was imported from, Ontario; Toronto and Kingston, Canada, which have postponed opening of school and advised parents to keep their children away from the Canadian National Exhibition to open at Toronto next week...
Biggest war news from the Spanish front, however, was what went on behind the fighting lines on both sides. At Irún on the Rightist side the Spanish frontier was hermetically closed. Rightists explained : this was to prevent details of the advance on Santander leaking out to Leftist agents. Leftists explained: this was to keep news of new anti-Franco insurrections from the world. San Sebastian, theoretically completely calm since September, was reported the scene of one outbreak. Leftists reported that their scouts had heard firing behind the Rightists' lines not in one but several localities. The reason...
...year-old who in 1801 turned up in Licking County, Ohio, leading a packhorse laden with apple seed brought from a Pennsylvania cider mill. At suitable spots Johnny stopped to plant his seed in neat rows for the benefit of settlers to come.* Far in advance of the frontier he roamed, following Indian trails or pushing rude boats, always planting new seed and returning periodically to tend the young trees. Soon the whole frontier knew him, gladly gave him shelter. With long hair flying and beard full of burrs, he would lope from the forest at evening, accept supper from...