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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Border Boys. Far from the workaday radio world of Mexico City are the med ical and moral border blasters who shove their way into the U. S. firmament from roaring stations on the Mexican border: Dr. John Richard Brinkley, the goat-gland wizard and Astrologer Rose Dawn, a bouncy blonde plugger for everything from perfume to religious tomes, who use the 180,000 watts of station XERA at Villa Acufia; until recently Norman Baker who used 50,000-watt station XENT, near Nuevo Laredo until the U. S. Government convicted him for using the mails to de fraud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Mexican Air | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

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