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Nominated for the P.B.H. presidency at the cabinet meeting last week were Robert G. Axtell '43, Robert B. Sherwood '43, J. Elden Sawhill '43, and William J. Shea '43. Postcards will be sent out to members Thursday, and the new leaders will take office at the banquet a week from tomorrow...
...banquet for the advertising department he took a swipe at Marshall Field's Sun and at the Tribune's critics ("People-may question our being the world's greatest newspaper. I cannot find they ever suggest any other candidate."). Then he announced that when he dies employes will be permitted to buy his shares (only ten) of Tribune Co. stock and he hoped that eventually they might be permitted to buy a majority of the company's 2,000 shares of stock (estimated value: $25,000 to $40,000 a share...
...respects of the President, the Secretary of State, the Lend-Lease Administrator, the Librarian of Congress and the British Ambassador were paid last week to a radio reporter. At a banquet given for him at the Waldorf-Astoria, some 1,100 persons of note twice rose to their feet in tribute to him. CBS's Edward R. (for Roscoe) Murrow, back from three years in grim London, was clearly given to understand that he had deserved well of the Republic...
...last week's ornamental banquet, presided over by CBS's silver-haired Standby Elmer Davis, two debts were implicitly acknowledged. One acknowledgment came from the Administration to the men who had made the urgent plight of Britain palpable to millions. Said Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish to Ed Murrow: "You have destroyed . . . the superstition that what is done beyond 3,000 miles of water is not realty done...
...single radio job since radio began could unanswerably justify the business of broadcasting as now conducted, CBS's news coverage since 1938 might well be it. But the radio business as now conducted has been challenged by the Government's powerful Communications Commission. An observer at the banquet could note the glint of FCC Chairman James Fly's glasses down the table as CBS's earnest, boylike President William S. Paley, praising Murrow, promised to fight for freedom of the air "no matter whence, nor how subtly or how boldly comes the attack...