Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once again Harvard news and Harvard music will be sent across the space which separates Commander Byrd's expedition from the United States, according to the following despatch received by the CRIMSON late last evening...
...Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, June 5--At 11 o'clock next Saturday evening station KDKA of this city is to broadcast a program in honor of the five Harvard men who are members of Commander Byrd's Antarctic expedition. The program to be broadcast consists of Harvard songs by the Harvard quartette, assisted by Madame Louise Homer, soloist, Harvard news, and football songs. Personal messages from University officials will also be included in this novel broadcast to the South Polar region...
...broadcast will be made on the regular wave length so that it may be picked up anywhere on the North American continent, but it will be supplemented by the short wave which is regularly used to send messages to Commander Byrd's camp 11,000 miles away...
...brought down many an allied plane; it was Herr Fokker that first synchronized machine guns to fire between whirling propeller blades. After the War, Herr Fokker went from Germany to Holland, then (1923) to this country, of which he will soon become Mr. Fokker, U. S. citizen. Commander Richard Byrd flew a Fokker to the North Pole and another Fokker across the Atlantic; Lieutenants Maitland and Hegenberger flew a Fokker from California to Hawaii...
News of Harvard athletics will set out on the longest and fastest journey ever attempted by such information, when the General Electric Company's radio station at Schenectady broadcasts at the end of this week a release from the Athletic Association to Commander Byrd's expedition in the Antarctic Ocean...