Word: manning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elsewhere in this issue you will find a special section devoted to the first half of this century and to the man whose story comes closest to summing up those years...
...started with an advertising man's dream-a vision of a helpless, pliable throng, ears open and guards down, known in the trade as a "captive audience." Trapped in Manhattan's cavernous Grand Central Terminal, where each day 500,000 persons swarm to & fro, was the biggest audience in captivity. The temptation was irresistible. Grand Central expanded its public address system into a small broadcasting studio, laid in a supply of canned music, syrupy-voiced announcers and loudspeakers (82 of them), and went into business. Advertisers eagerly paid $1,800 a week for the privilege of spraying music...
Editor Harold Ross, a man who gets a lot of professional mileage out of his frustrations, appeared in person to answer. He identified himself caustically: "I am the editor of an adult comic book . . . to put it heavy-handedly . . . and I commute back & forth through the terminal." A poll by "Datum Diggers," Ross cracked, would show 85.5% against the noise. The broadcasts were so loud nobody could read, so bad nobody could understand them, he said. "It varies," Ross grumbled, "but it's all bad . . . I just want to be left alone. I can do all right with...