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The broadcast was begun with an announcement that a dramatization was taking place and was concluded by Mr. Welles's statement that it was "the Mercury Theatre's own version of dressing up in a sheet . . . and saying Boo!" But the story had been so realistically transplanted from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Boo! | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

All this has given Harold Stassen an unparalleled chance to make hay. A more energetic campaigner than bespectacled Governor Benson, he has covered 20,000 Minnesota miles in his car, bellowing into a back seat dictaphone between speeches. He makes as many as four in one evening, always scurries to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Drugstore Cowboy | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

Four years ago the Federal Radio Commission (now the Federal Communications Commission) encouraged an experiment. That experiment, and its results so far, have landed FCC in a tough spot. Under a six-month experimental license the Commission gave Powel Crosley Jr. the right to raise the broadcasting power of his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: 500,000 Watts | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

When Vice-Chancellor Ogilvie accepted the BBC appointment, he told the press: "I am not director-general until October and I hope to be in cold storage until then." Jumping to the conclusion that this meant that he would continue the Reith tradition of aloof frigidity, the Daily Mail snapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Second Scot | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

To many a listener, it seemed to be news that George Gershwin was the creator of three fairly recent movie tunes, They Can't Take That Away From Me, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Love Walked In-all played under the title of Hollywood Medley. Smash hit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gershwin Memorials | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

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