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Hearing this scene described over his radio, many a U.S. listener jumped from his chair; a few started celebrating. Yet the whole incident might have passed as just another rumor had it not been for what happened next at the White House.
All in all, radio's professionals came off better than the host of minor notables who were rushed to the microphones. Most painful to the ordinary listener was the cumulative effect of the politicos who cannot speak without orating and of well-meaning citizens who aired sincere and hollow...
Last week the latest listener-polls, as they have for years, put Crosby among the dozen most popular attractions in radio. The entertainment trade-sheet, Variety, considered him front page news. He had been a top-rank songster since the season of 1930-31, when a current pop tune was...
FM demands special sending equipment, a special receiver. The benefits to the listener are an absence of static, a unique fidelity of tone. Standard broadcasting keeps the frequency of its radio waves constant, varies the power; FM varies the frequency, keeps the power constant. Static is a series of power...
"Special Assistant." By definition (the Official Register of the U.S.) Harry Hopkins is "special assistant and adviser to the President of the United States." Actually, his job is much more complex. It is a unique position in the U.S. Government. Specifically it calls for the qualities of a secretary, expediter...