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Helnl Radio News Service
7/10/46
She was In the legal section at first, then in dockets and finally in the press section, as it was called then.* * *
Her proudest moment was when Joe Foss, first Marine ace of World War II and Miss O’Leson's cousin came down to Washing¬ ton with his family to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor by President Roosevelt. They stayed at Miss 0*Leson*s home.* * *
Sally Llndo arrived at the FCC in 1938, and she also went first to the Legal Division. She had been working with the old NRA and its outgrowing organizations when she decided to join the FCC "to get away from politics* " She told that to one of the Com¬ missioners a while back. He*s still laughing.
Mrs. Lindo is from Litchfield, Ill.
The two of them somehow get out all public notices and releases in addition to keeping a ready reference file and answer¬ ing the telephone "on an average of 200 times daily.
Atwater Kent*s Parties Have Hollywood Goggle-Eyed
( "Life”, July"!)
A. (for Arthur ) Atwater Kent is a spry, kindly million¬ aire of 72 who epitomizes an ambition seldom realized by rich men of America. In 1937, after successfully patenting 97 inventions and manufacturing more than 6,000,000 radio sets, he completely liquidated his business enterprises and set about doing just what he wanted to do. Through his Atwater Kent Founda.tion he gave more than a million to philanthropies, restored the Be sty Ross House in Philadelphia, encouraged good, music and art. Then he really began to get fun out of retirement. Abandoning his estates in Bar Harbor, Philadelphia, Palm Beach and Southampton, he settled in the rich Bel Air suburb of Los Angeles and there became the best-known partygiven in a place which loves to give and go to parties.
Kent*s big, colonnaded 32 room Italian villa, with seven cars and a 18-acre estate, and terraced grounds operate on the openhouse principle all day long. More than 100 convalescent veterans are invited at a time to swimmingdancing parties, for which his hard-working social staff will provide scores of coed guests. But the parties which make Kent unquestionably moviedom' s No. 1 host are the elaborate luncheons, dinners, dances and balls with which he untiringly amuses a regular guest list of over 800 assorted celebrities.
Bikini Radar, Radio, Didn*t Come Out As Good As The Goats
(William L. Laurence in "New York Times")
One of the most striking results of the Bikini bomb is its effect on radar and radio. Its net effect has been to deprive the Bikini fleet of its eyes and voice and ears. Most of the radar towers and radio antennae on the capital ships have either been knocked down or damaged. This is also true to a large extent of the fire-control mechanism.
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