Word: fanmail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fanmail response to the first program was not great, but included notes of appreciation from such listeners as Supreme Court Justice James Clark McReynolds and Little Steelman Charles R. Hook, ex-president of the National Association of Manufacturers...
...widely and cordially these broadcasts are received in Germany was evident last week in a fanmail file prepared by NBC's International Division for the Federal Communications Commission. Of about 2,000 letters and postcards received by NBC each month from 82 foreign points, 300 to 400 are in German, and 60% of these from inside Germany. A few typical excerpts, translated...
...forsaken female of mid-Victorian romances is alive & kicking yet. The only modern touch about her reappearance is that she is deflowered by a hero who does not bother to ask her name. Famed Novelist R. (for Zweig?) returns to Vienna after his holidays to find among his customary fanmail a fat letter superscribed ''To you, who have never known me." He reads on to learn that the unknown woman's only child has just died, that she is going to pour out her heart to him, sole consolation of her miserable life. She starts pouring...
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