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...Design for Living. The Federal Communications Commission, which has been holding hearings on postwar broadcasting and microwave plans, heard the most ambitious yet. The Raytheon Manufacturing Co., a major manufacturer of electronic tubes for the Army & Navy, announced that it is prepared to begin construction this year of a coast-to-coast chain of microwave transmitting stations along airline routes. This system, says Raytheon, will...
...Orleans Sid Bechet, still in short pants, broke into music, playing clarinet in the Eagle Brass Band which paraded for festivals and funerals. In recent years Bechet has made many great jazz records with special studio bands and only last month he appeared as features star on Esquire's coast-to-coast jazz broadcast over the Blue Network. Bunk Johnson on cornet also played in the old Eagle Band, and by 1914 hen Bechet joined him he was already an old timer, having performed with King Bolden's Band...
...coast-to-coast professional-football league is a dead certainty for 1945-if everyone doesn't get killed in the rush...
...unique radio program went coast-to-coast and (by short wave) to U.S. troops abroad last week. San Quentin on the Air is a by-product of the inmates of the famed prison outside San Francisco...
Clink Concerto. In its first two years San Quentin (Mutual, 7:30 p.m., Tues., P.W.T.) has become reasonably professional and picked up thousands of loyal listeners. It is the first prison show to go coast-to-coast. When Warden Duffy and Mutual's Pacific Coast affiliate, the Don Lee Network, first agreed to give the program a try, two years ago, San Quentin wags referred to the broadcast as "Concerto in the Clink." One inmate, looking over the crowd at the first broadcast in the prison mess hall, observed: "Those boys are lucky. This...