Word: broadcasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a handy man confessed to murdering an eleven-year-old girl last July, most of the city's radio stations decided to defy Rule 904; they broadcast his confession. Convicted of contempt of court, three stations and a commentator were fined from $100 to $500 (TIME, Feb. 7). They appealed the decision, contending that it was a threat to free speech and a free press. Last week, at Annapolis, the Maryland Court of Appeals agreed; it threw out Baltimore's gag rule as "illogical." Declared the court: "We are well aware of the high motives [involved...
...Commentators of pronounced opinions, either to left or right (e.g., Johannes Steel, Fulton Lewis Jr., Henry J. Taylor) have not come under the Mayflower decision because they broadcast for advertisers and do not speak for station-owners...
...whole television industry into a nervous dither. Even Zenith Radio Corp., builders of the TV color receivers used in Philadelphia, disparaged its own work. Zenith's supercharged President Eugene F. McDonald Jr. shrugged off the Philadelphia experiment because it was transmitted over a telephone line. "It is not broadcast television," he argued, "and it does not indicate that color television for the public is imminent." CBS, which pioneered in color television, had nothing...
...several of Philadelphia's big hotels. He is active in both Christian and Jewish charities, a prime promoter of National Brotherhood Week. He was vice chairman of Johnson's fund-raising committee. During the campaign, he got an SOS: funds were so low that the Democrats could broadcast only 15 minutes of an important Truman speech. Greenfield wired back: buy the air time, and make it half an hour. When Truman rode through the streets of Philadelphia, short, chubby Albert Greenfield rode with...
Partisan Primo Camera, after killing dozens of Germans, was executed by the Nazis. Last fall, hale & hearty, non-Partisan Camera broadcast over Stern's show. Another time they heard that Abraham Lincoln's dying words, breathed to Colonel Abner Doubleday, inspired him to invent baseball, and that Thomas A. Edison's deafness came about after he was beaned in a ball game by Pitcher Jesse James...