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...talk completed the first series of Louis C. Elson Memorial Music lectures...
Howard Hanson, director of the Eastman School of Music, asserted last night that radio had "capitulated to greed" by turning over to advertisers network time formerly devoted to music. Hanson opened the Louis C. Elson Memorial Music Lectures at Paine Hall...
That TIME'S editors (along with many others) had a pretty good idea where the conference was coming out did not deter them from covering it. The TIME-LIFE Bureau at San Francisco, under Washington Bureau Chief Robert Elson, numbered about 15, one of the largest groups of reporters TIME Inc. had ever sent to one place. Their job was not to add to the din, but to place each week's report in a perspective that fitted the facts, and to report the kind of detail that got over to the reader the real character...
Aside from the problem of how to get your laundry done (usually solved by buying new haberdashery), Elson and Booth encountered others that will become standard when next year's campaign gets under way. One was how to keep up with the men they were covering and still find time to write good, readable daily copy for TIME'S editors. Booth got considerable practice writing his on a jouncing portable balanced on his knees in a chartered bus. Elson found that between midnight and dawn in the privacy of his Pullman bedroom was the best time...
...small towns the arrival of such national personages as Taft and Dewey was usually the signal for the biggest local political jamboree in months-Western politicians thinking nothing of driving 500 miles or more to talk politics with one of the leaders of their party. Moreover, Elson and Booth found, they were as interested in interviewing the correspondents as the correspondents were in interviewing them. At a luncheon in Tacoma, Washington, Elson was approached by a delegation of local radiomen, on hand to welcome him. They were under the misapprehension that he was another Bob Elson (no relation), national network...