Word: airings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Chase and Sanborn troupe broadcast from Manhattan's Radio City-the first time the program had originated from anywhere but Hollywood in nearly two years on the air. When the plan to do this was announced to the press, 60,000 Charlie McCarthy fans besieged NBC and the agency producing the show for admission to Radio City's 1,318-seat Studio 8-H. A crowd of 5,000 was at the station when the troupe arrived, but Charlie was nowhere to be seen. Photographers grouped Master of Ceremonies Don Ameche, darkling Sarongstress Dorothy Lamour...
...discount, Campbell stands to gain even more under CBS's summer policy, announced officially last week although it had been a CBS selling point for a year or so. Radio programs canceling for the summer usually take the chance of losing their old spot on the air come fall. NBC is still hard-boiled on this point, but CBS now permits advertisers "brief hiatuses during the summer . . . without forfeiture of time." A summer vacation on all Campbell shows would bring its savings to about...
...willing to admit, however, that the most consistent troupers on the air would be silenced this summer. Since March 1928, when Freeman F. Gosden became Amos and Charles J. Correll Andy, they have had one vacation, eight weeks in 1934, when they were plugging for Pepsodent. Other than that, they have missed only two broadcasts-one episode was silenced by a general SOS, but later printed in many newspapers; and once they went hunting in Maryland and were snowed in. Even when Correll's baby died last January, the show went on, the pair doing the first broadcast together...
...sold the pick-up plan to Civil Aeronautics Authority is All-American's socialite president, Richard du Pont, crack airplane and glider pilot. Enthusiastic advocate of air mail for Main Street, he is confident his mail-snagging line will soon have counterparts in every part of the U. S., has cannily offered his pick-up device for sale. If the service proves widely popular the railroads may have something else to worry about...
Announced by Air Associates, Inc., for pilots who want more than a peek at the ground out of an open side window before landing in rain or ice, was a windshield wiper which is designed to: 1) keep ice off the glass, and 2) scrub it dry in the heaviest rainstorm. Trick of the device is a rubber, motor-driven blade, pivoted on an axle through the windshield. It revolves so fast (2,500 r.p.m.) that it does not obstruct vision, scrubs glass many times faster than a slow-moving automobile wiper. To help it rub away ice, a melting...