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...Windmill Theater spend an extraordinary amount of time standing stock still. They have to. The Windmill is a burlesque house, and, by order of the Lord Chamberlain, nudes on the move are licentious; "living statues" are art. Among the Windmill's ladies, plump, brown-eyed Sheila Van Damm is a well-dressed exception. As the manager's daughter and part-time assistant, she is fully clothed during working hours, and even off duty she rarely stands still. Europe's champion woman motorist, Sheila spends every spare minute zipping across the countryside at the wheel of her sports...
...minutes he was on Mehring Damm. A short time later he sighted an American flag flapping over Tempelhof airdrome and knew he was near his journey's end. Last week, perched on the edge of his chair, blond, stringy Mieczyslaw told his story. And the father he had run so many risks to find? A call to England located him: a textile worker in Blackburn, Lancashire. The boy smiled a small, trembling smile. He had made...
...York, the protests began to mount. In a sharp wire to CBS, testy Walter Damm, manager of the Milwaukee Journal's station WTMJ-TV, said: "Godfrey's remarks . . . were the most obnoxious and filthy ever inflicted on a television audience . . . Unless [his] remarks and gestures conform to decency in the future, the Journal Co. will refuse to carry him further." Variety headlined, CBS OUT ON A GODFREY LIMB, and warned that industry-wide censorship might result. Urging Godfrey to "pipe down a little," New York Herald Tribune Columnist John Crosby wrote: "I hate to align myself with...
...Logan's outcry raised echoes which were rumbling throughout the U.S. last week. In the Midwest, even individual TV stations joined the crusade. Walter J. Damm, general manager of Milwaukee's WTMJ-TV, which had already turned down NBC's Lights Out and CBS's Suspense, and called for a nationwide cleanup, said that? "the time has come for independent TV stations to take positive action about the whodunits." In St. Louis, General Manager George M. Burbach of KSD-TV said that he had been deluging NBC for months with "our objections to gory programs...
Departing from custom, A.N.P.A. set aside one session in which experts will discuss FM (frequency modulation) broadcasting. The experts: FM's inventor, Major E. H. Armstrong, General Electric's Dr. W. R. G. Baker, and Walter J. Damm, president of FM Broadcasters, Inc. (also vice president of the Milwaukee Journal). Interest was aroused by: 1) the recent FCC acceptance of postwar FM station applications; 2) among newspaper applicants, such stalwarts as the New York Times and News, Omaha World-Herald, Washington Star, Atlanta Constitution, the three major St. Louis dailies. Another straw in the air-news wind: some...