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1/26/43
BROADCAST BRINGS 20,000 REPLIES; THEY STILL COME
Concrete evidence of the "pull" of radio wgs the experience of Mrs. Dennis Mullane, a Staten Island housewife last Saturday night.
"Called to the microphone as the ‘mother of the youngest serviceman in an audience attending the * Truth or Consequences’ pro¬ gram broadcast over WEAF from the National Broadcasting Comoany studios, Ralph Edwards, master of ceremonies, put this poser to Mrs. Mullane", the New York Times reports:
"'How many kings of England possessed the name Henry?'
•Mpive1, Mrs, Mullane reolied.
"'Ever hear of Henry the Eighth?’ As Mrs. Mullane flushed and murmured, 'I should have known that’, Mr. Edwards asked the radio listeners to send contributions of one cent to Mrs, Mullane fs home for the purchase of a war bond for her son, Harold, 17-year-old Marine.
"Hoping for a letter from her son yesterday, Mrs. Mullane at 11 A. M. was watching for the postman at a front window of her eight-room home. Instead of the regular mail carrier, four men arrived from the main post office at St. George, each carrying a sack of mail, which they deposited on her doorstep.
"Postmaster Bernard Sheeran, at St. George, estimated that at least 20,000 letters had arrived at the post office for Mrs. Mullane and said he would deliver them by truck.
"Late last night Mrs. Mullane still was opening letters and piling money on the living room table. Most of the contribu¬ tions were in pennies but some radio listeners sent quarters, halfdollars and even bills. "
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SENATE VOTES WIRE MERGER 70 TO 10
The Senate pa ssed Monday , 70-10, a bill to permit merger of the Postal Telegraph Co. and Western Union. The bill provides for combining the telegraph companies in the domestic field but not the radio and cable companies in the foreign field. The bill now goes to the House, where a similar Senate-approved measure died last session for lack of action.
Senators McFarland ( D. ) , of Arizona, and White ( R) , of Maine said Postal was losing $300,000 a month and already owed the Reconstruction Finance Coro, $9,000,000,
The Senate rejected 49-29, an amendment by Senator Taft(R), of Ohio, to reduce from five to two years the oeriod for which the consolidated company would be required to guarantee employment for employees of the two concerns.
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