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Bowles* Broadcasts Dull, Mrs. Roosevelt Agrees
A woman reporter asked Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt at her press conference yesterday whether she didn't think Price Administrator Bowles' radio speecnes were ''very dull". "You are right", the First Lady replied. Bowles goes on the air to discuss rationing.
( Washington Times-Herald )
Charges Broadcasters With Making A Mess Of It
Since the radio enters so intimately into our domestic and public life, let us hope that its future as a cultural agent will not be as questionable as many of us feel it now is. The current active propaganda, against government regulation discolors the pic¬ ture. Under what seems a totally false slogan freedom of speech we are being tempted to ask the government not to try to protect us. ...With one of tne greatest boons ever given by science to the edu¬ cation and entertainment of mankind, the broadcasting industry is making amess of it. . . . But you of the sciences ana arts and profes¬ sions can think and write and protest, even without a budget of money. Yours can be a budget of goodwill toward American culture in the postwar world.
(Harlow Shapley, Director, Harvard College Observatory in Journal of National Education Association. )
Orchids To McCosker From Pulitzer Author
On the same train when I went to New York was Alfred J. McCosker, who had Just been graduated with honors from the Denver Times advertising oromotion department. McCosker, the same who is now one of radio's most successful moguls (certainly one of the most human) was the man who 'first wrote a daily column of automobile news for Denver. He stooped off at Chicago, but not for long.
From "Joseoh Pulitzer and his World" by James Wyman Barrett, last City Editor of the World)
Negro Announcer Sought
Station WMCA in New York will initiate a novel emoloyment policy shortly. The management is seeking a Negro announcer. This, the station believes, will help break the Jim Crow tape which hereto¬ fore has barred members of the race from this field. As soon as a suitable one is found and this will be done without difficulty he will become a member of the staff.
(New York Day By Day Washington Post)
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