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...their station on a commercial basis, invited a limited number of sponsors to advertise. Only products personally approved by Engineer Hogan himself are permitted the use of his air waves, and their announcements are held to a strict standard of dignity and terseness. Typical sponsors have included Random House, the Oxford University Press, the Theatre Guild. Martinson's Coffee, the American Tobacco Co. One of them, the Book-of-the-Month Club, apologizes for taking up the listeners' valuable time. Despite these restraints, WQXR has turned into a sound moneymaker, has already grossed some...
...obtained an average of 4.9743 hits per 25 cards. Since this was below but closely approximate to the expected five hits per 25, Dr. Greenwood felt he had proved Dr. Rhine's point-that telepathic and clairvoyant humans can make much better scores than are obtainable by random card-matching...
...Pugh, however, was a prominent anti-Machenite: the man who, in 1934, was credited with perfecting the legal devices by which fundamentalist followers of the late Dr. J. Gresham Machen were read out of the Presbyterian Church. As a sudden, random gesture of conciliation toward the Machenites, the nominating committee last week picked a dark horse. The gesture was so random that the dark horse. Rev. Paul Coverly Johnston of Rochester, N. Y., had gone home unaware he was nominated. He telegraphed his withdrawal, whereupon Dr. Pugh won hands down...
...interest of such devoted disciples of semantics as Stuart Chase and myself, don't you feel obliged to render an account of the number of definitions you receive, as well as a few random samplings...
TIME prints herewith some random samples, will print more. Of the 63 letters received to date, 19 agree that Roosevelt is a liberal; 28 deny...