Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Rachel, with Maureen Stapleton as Mrs. Andrew Jackson...
Died. Lieut. General Lewis Andrew Pick, 66, U.S. Army (ret.), onetime (1949-52) chief of Army Engineers, who rammed through (1943-45) the Army's tortuous, 478-mile Ledo Road ("Pick's Pike") through Burma, later (1946) began construction of a dam network project (the Pick-Sloan plan) to tame the rambunctious Missouri River, directed (1949) "Operation Snowbound" to relieve storm-clogged Northern states, while head of Army Engineers built the Air Force base at Thule, Greenland; in Washington...
...this progress--and, indeed, all of WHRB's hopes--are still contingent on FCC approval to construct and to operate an FM station. This approval should come in January or February. Andrew has already convinced the trustees and staff members of the station that the projected move is a good one, and he feels sure he can do the same with...
WHRB's construction should take no longer than four to six weeks, Andrew says. The station would then be fully prepared to start its FM operations, since the actual technical knowledge required for transmission would be practically identical with that required now for the radio frequency line transmission...
...Andrew has even had the station's charter changed already. When incorporated in 1952, the purposes of WHRB were stated this way: "To establish and maintain a radio communication system throughout Harvard University in the Common-wealth of Massachusetts, for the two-fold purpose of: 1) educating its members in the technical and commercial problems inherent in radio broadcasting and of 2) broadcasting, and otherwise providing for, the dissemination of music and educational information for students at said University...