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Merlin Aylesworth, first president of NBC and now an adman, had just published his own warning that radio was doomed. He predicted that radio, as the U.S. now knows it, will be wiped out by TV within three years. Speaking to the convention in the gilt and glitter of the Stevens' ballroom, FCCommissioner Wayne Coy concurred. "The essential difference between Mr. Aylesworth and me is one of time," said Coy. "His three years seems much too short...
...gets much of its surface glitter and look of reality from exciting camera work and lively invention. For its emotional drive, it relies almost entirely on the quiet, slowly accumulating honesty of Ryan's performance...
...expensive section of the Bellboy dining hall will take on all the glitter of the diamond horseshoe for the performance of Handel's "Acis and Galatea." James Perrin '50 and Marguerite Willauer of the New England Conservatory of Music will sing the title roles of John Gay's libretto. Paul Tibbets '45, who has been something of a fixture in musical circles here since the pre-war era himself, will be Polyphemus while June Donald of the Longy School will sing Dalmon...
...years that have passed since then, the glitter of royalty has disappeared from most of the world, France's empire has almost been forgotten, kings have given way to commoners, and the Suez Canal itself, under British control, has flowed on through the rise & fall of many another empire. Through all those years Eugénie's La Reine has stretched and slept under the hot Egyptian...
...downstream on the Charles. The gentleman who yesterday called the Harvard-Yale game stuff for kids will overnight turn into the noisiest and naughiest kids in the territory. After the game the breath of liquor will hang over the Square like a smog; blond hair and strapless backs will glitter through the night; and Cambridge, seat of culture, will be undistinguishable from any city where the American Legion is raising hell...