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talent in business, the professions, government, research and the arts. It would permit special lectures by such eminent authorities as Charles Kettering on research, Dr. Karl Menninger on psychiatry. Chief Justice Earl Warren on law, Dr. Paul Dudley White on medicine, and Sir Winston Churchill on history. Through tele- vision, these and others could share their knowledge with students all over the United States, and ultimately with those all over the world. "3- It would enable educational institutions to com- pete with the higher salaries now paid in other fields of endeavor. With the many elementary and secondary schools and colleges, that could participate in the pro- gram, sharing the overall cost, a teacher's salary could be in the six-figure realm of the highest paid businessman or entertainer. "4. It would make possible the use of live and pre- pared demonstrations that are now out of the question. The student could literally enter an atomic reactor, or visit the bottom of the sea, or fly in a jet plane. "5. It would ease the pressure on our overcrowded school buildings by making the fullest use of public and other auditoriums. "6. It would greatly reduce the cost of education per student. "7. It would raise the general level and standards of education. We could look forward with confidence to the day when there would be no more Class "B" school systems anywhere in our country." On NBC the Vice President of the United States spent half an hour talking about his job. The Speaker of the House, a U. S. Senator and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court spoke about theirs. Stage and film stats read from landmarks in the nation's literature. Leading mathematicians, geographers and writers dis- coursed on their specialties. Singing actors performed scenes from operatic masterworks. Wide Variety of Subjects These were among the participants in the first cycle of NBC Educational Television Project programs, pro- duced in cooperation with the Educational Television and Radio Center, at Ann Arbor, Mich. From March to June NBC offered weekly programs devoted to American literature, world geography, mathematics, American government, and music. This fall, there will be a second 13-week cycle. During the first cycle, NBC sent out five programs live from New York to the educational TV stations over its regular network facilities, from 6:30 to 7 p.m., EDT, Monday through Friday. In addition to these ETV stations—for which the programs were primarily de- signed—they have found an additional outlet. Thirteen NBC-affiliated stations are telecasting (by kinescope recording)-—or are about to telecast—some or all of the programs. The 65-telecast series ranged in subject matter from automatic computers to Wagnerian opera, treating along the way such themes as puzzles, paradoxes, infinity, prob- ability, calculus, bureaucracy, the budget, the great Amer- ican novel, and Africa today. The world is at his fingertips as Profes- sor Albert E. Burke of Yale University lectures via NBC educational television. James R. Newman, editor of the best selling "World of Mathematics," dis- cussed various aspects of his specialty. Actor Henry Hull (left), Dr. Albert D. Van Nostrand and author Erskine Caldwell on "The American Scene." 22 RADIO AGE