Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Dyneley Prince, retiring U. S. Minister to Jugoslavia, returned to teach Slavonic languages at Columbia University. His position had been held open since 1921 when President Harding appointed him Minister to Denmark. This week Columbia's President Nicholas Murray Butler was to talk to his students about New York politics...
...thus far have done all the fighting. Radio, which gets more & more of the national advertiser's dollar each year partly at the expense of newspapers, has been able to sit back and insist quietly that, so far as Radio was concerned, no war existed. Last week, however, Columbia Broadcasting System took action which, if not a show of force, at least was good showmanship. It formed Columbia News Service, Inc. to gather and broadcast news...
Radio took the injunction without loud protest, proceeded to gather its own news as it saw fit. NBC and Columbia publicity staffs both are manned by seasoned newshawks. NBC's smart Vice President Frank Earl Mason, onetime president of Hearst's International News Service, applied wire service methods to the long distance telephone, got fast, adequate coverage of big news for his chain. Columbia went at it somewhat more elaborately, organized a system of correspondents in the 90 cities dotted by CBS stations...
Last week's action divorced Columbia's news force from its publicity department. It may have been prompted partly by the fact that Columbia lately signed up a new client, General Mills, which will broadcast two daily 5-minute news reports. CBS would not say if it contemplated any hotter competition with the Press, but its articles of incorporation permit...
...Frances Winwar as Francesca Vinciguerra. Born in Taormina, where her great-uncle was caretaker of the Graeco-Roman amphitheatre, she went to the U. S. with her family when she was eight. A shining advertisement for Manhattan's public schools, College of the City of New York and Columbia University, she speaks seven languages, has published a translation of Boccaccio's Decameron, three historical novels (The Ardent Flame, The Golden Round, Pagan Interval...