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Dates: during 1930-1939
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America's Town Meeting of the Air (Thurs. 9:30 p. m. NBC-Blue) opens its fourth radio season with Journalist Anne O'Hare McCormick, Columnist Hugh Samuel Johnson. Editor Felix Morley. Subject: "Where Will The Munich Settlement Lead...
...cause of this amazing, nationwide panic last Sunday night was a broadcast by Orson Welles's CBS Mercury Theatre of the Air of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (no relative). Author Wells's classic pseudo-scientific thriller about how the men from Mars invade earth in a flying cylinder (at first thought to be a meteorite) was first published in 1898. That its broadcast on Halloween Eve 1938, caused something pretty close to national hysteria was not entirely due to the timelessness of the Wells story, the persuasive microphone technique of Orson ("The Shadow...
...problem: Does a candidate who takes the customary air time of a popular program draw to himself the attention or the hostility of the program's audience? Candidate Dewey* last week bought on Station WJZ (Manhattan) 30 minutes of Tuesday evening time, half of which usually goes to the Information Please program. Although he was still talking when his time was up, WJZ cut him off to pick up the second half of Information Please, on which Harpo Marx was a noisily silent guest juror,† By telephone Information Please fans berated NBC for giving part of the program...
Married. Captain Bruno Mussolini, 21, second son of Il Duce, Italian Royal Air Force pilot who found bombing the Ethiopians "most diverting"; and Gina Ruberti, 21, doe-eyed daughter of the head of the Ministry of Education's Contemporary Art Bureau; in Rome...
...past four months physicists of the National Bureau of Standards at Washington have been sending clusters of small sounding balloons to great heights in the upper air. Purpose: cosmic ray research. The balloons carry Geiger-Müller cosmic ray counters, barographs, automatic radios which send signals to a ground station every 15 seconds, recording the altitude (in terms of air pressure) and the intensity of the cosmic bombardment. Last week Drs. L. F. Curtiss and A. V. Astin reported that one cluster of six balloons had reached the remarkable height of 23 miles (about 120,000 ft.). This...