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WHAT INDUSTRY LEADERS ARE SAYING ABOUT TELEVISION
The Weekly Television News Letter carries these quotes:
Mark Woods, President of the Blue Network: ’’While we own no television station today, I am convinced that television will prove to be the greatest medium developed for entertainment and advertising. ”
0, B. Hanson, NBC: ”I, as a broadcast engineer, looking towards the progress that may be expected in the next decade, visual¬ ize television as having the greatest potential possibilities for service to the public and the nation as a whole. ”
Allen B. DuMont, head of DuMont Laboratories and Television Broadcasters’ Association President: ’’Advertisers and advertising men are already convinced that television advertising has real pos¬ sibilities, They are now cutting their eye teeth on television advertising and will be reedy so that telecasters will be assured of a source of Income whereby to conduct their activities. ”
J, D. McLean, General Electric: ”It takes no stress of the imagination to realize Just how great the demand for television receiving sets will be... because it is evident the American people are television-conscious today and eager to buy television receivers tomorrow. ”
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WINCHELL TO SUE REP. HOFMAN FOR LIBEL
Following his broadcast last Sunday night, Walter Winchell announced that he would file a libel suit for ^250,000 against Representative Clare Hoffman ( R, ) , of Michigan. The suit was to be filed in Federal court in Washington, D. C. , yesterday, and was to be based on a letter from Representative Hoffman to the editor of the Marcellus (Mich.) News. ”It ’ s the first suit I’ve ever filed against anyone the columnist declared.
Mr. Winchell quoted the letter as saying that Representative Hoffman, through his pressure in the House of Representatives, had had Winchell stripped of his Navy uniform, stripped of his duties and stripped of his oay, "
In his broadcast over the Blue Network Sunday night, Mr. Winchell discussed 11 charges Representative Dies had made against him. After the broadcast, Mr. Winchell told newsmen that his sponsors had cut out two major parts of his talk, namely, that he be allowed to answer Dies’ charges before a Congressional Committee, and he also wanted to speak of Congressional attacks on the Dies Committee,
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