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While Burdenz draws a vague line between "liberals," fellow travelers," and "Communists," the precise listener may not learn how to go about distinguishing one from another. In answer to a union member's query about John L. Lewis, he said that it "would be a great mistake to confuse Communism...
¶ A book-sized wireless portable radio receiver through which a strolling listener, by a flick of a switch, can hear a speaker's words translated into any of four languages. Explanation: the speaker's words are radioed to translators, then the translations are rebroadcast on four different...
A talent for getting to the core of abstruse subjects made him one of the leading lights of the Shop Club, a once-a-month supper club founded (to talk shop) in 1921 by Conant and a group of his faculty friends and their wives. Conant was a good listener...
The man who is primarily to blame for audience-participation shows in radio is Parks (Vox Pop) Johnson. He started it all in 1932 when he set up a microphone in front of Houston's Rice Hotel and started to question passers-by while he threw in commercial plugs...
"Of course you have to make concessions to the sponsor-and to showmanship. But the insincerity of most of these shows! They're insulting the public, the way they talk down. The average participation-show M.C. plays to the studio audience; if the listener doesn't get half...