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...Hooperatings on which radio bases all its calculations are nothing more than a number of answers to telephone calls, translated into percentages. In 36 cities*-spots where all four networks are in equal competition -Hooperaters go to work twice a month, calling random numbers from the telephone directory. The quizzers ask stock questions ("Are you listening to the radio? To what program? What station?"). The Hooperaters are mostly retired telephone operators ("the Bell system turns people into absolute automatons...
...Manhattan court on an obscenity charge. The book under discussion: McHugh's just-published The Blue Hen's Chickens. What probably shocked Sumner (though he didn't say): an octet of pornographic love poems, "derived" from a translation of Catullus. To Sumner's charge, Random House's joke-collecting President Bennett Cerf (Try and Stop Me) cried: "Absurd!" But Publisher Cerf was not all indignation. "Maybe," he mused, "it will help good poetry get some sales...
...that radio's organizational set-up might not be completely perfect. Other programs, attempting to extract laughs from the incident, were likewise gagged. In New York this week one John Sumner, of the Society for Supression of Vice, led three detectives in a raid on the offices of Random House publishers. For reasons best known to himself he ordered confiscated all ten available copies of a widely unknown book of poems, "The Blue Hen's Chickens," and served a summons on a clerk who was so unacquainted with the book that she inquired if it were "a juvenile...
...from Greece at the age of sixteen, one of the first things the future entrepreneur did was to run an ad in the Boston Transcript offering to work a year without pay for any family who would teach him the English language. He got twelve answers, picked one at random, a doctor's home in a small Vermont town, and within twelve months was spouting like a native. Then he became a hotel waiter and moved successively through Boston, New York, Denver, Los Angels, and San Francisco. In 1914, after two years spent back in Greece fighting in the First...
Usually grim Union surroundings will undergo a transformation Friday evening when six models, a band unit, and an emcee will choose at random 60 Jubilee ticket holders who will vie with each other for a prize dance with the models at the May 10 Union formal...