Word: etten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Calvary Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh's East End, Westinghouse engineers installed a wireless telephone and three transmitters, announced that they were sending "up to a radius of 2,000 miles" on station KDKA the complete Calvary service. Only two months before, Calvary's Rector Edwin Jan van Etten had listened to the world's first radio broadcast, on KDKA-the Harding-Cox Presidential returns...
Last week on the anniversary of this pioneer broadcast in Calvary Church- largest Episcopal Church between New York and the Mississippi-Rector van Etten again broadcast on KDKA. He organized a choir with numerous boys whose fathers had sung in the 1921 service, had it accompanied by the organist of the original broadcast. An extempore sermonizer, Dr. van Etten found the notes of his first broadcast, attempted to reconstruct his 17-year-old words, ad libbing as well on the wonders of radio...
...Winifred Van Etten- Little, Brown...
...Atlantic Monthly's $10,000 prize novel the work of a 34-year-old Iowa teacher, her first full-length book. Between chapters devoted to Selma's early years her observations on the small-town marriages around her, her first experiences with men, Author Van Etten flashes back to pictures of Selma and Gardner going on with their quarrel about the fox, their deeper argument about getting married...
When told she had won, Mrs. Van Etten jiggled the cigaret lighter on her car, burned her thumb. Planning to save part of the $10,000, she remarked, "I don't suppose it would be possible to repeat right away on a thing like this," went to work on a second novel...