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Last week it seemed that "citizens' radios" (walkie-talkies for everybody) were just around the corner. Chairman Wayne Coy announced that one type had been approved by the Federal Communications
Since FCC is not in the business of selling or publicizing radio sets, Chairman Coy did not go into any details. But radiomen predicted that the "tranceivers" (transmitters-plus-receivers) will have a range of one to two miles in cities, five to ten miles in open country. They will be tunable (with a screwdriver) to several frequencies, which will reduce interference somewhat. If many are sold (and the industry has great hopes), it will be a great day for the peeping Toms of radio...
...explains. Finally he writes a book that exposes the little doings of everyone in the suburb, O'Hara and Young make up like sensible folk, and things are generally looking up, with Miss O'Hara expecting a fourth little boy. Three's a plenty, in spite of that coy look she gives us just before the Coming Attraction flashes on the screen...
...began to be talked about as Wallace's running mate the day after Henry announced his third party. For a while Taylor was coy, but this week he made up his mind. He went on the air in Washington with a speech entitled "Is This the Time for a Third Party?" His not surprising answer: yes. He accepted the invitation to be Henry Wallace's candidate for Vice President of the U.S., and said: "I am, going to feel good inside...
...week after the Senate confirmed his appointment, bespectacled FCChairman Wayne Coy was settled comfortably in the chair he had been occupying since Dec. 27. He liked his new job all right, but not his paycheck ($10,000 a year). By quitting as radio director of the Washington Post and chief of its radio station WINX, he had taken a "terrific slash" in salary, "more than...