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When Franklin Roosevelt died, U.S. radio made history of a sort, with a monumental, 85-hour tribute. It was a hail & farewell to a man whose radio voice had become the best known in broadcasting, whose vast radio audience has yet to be surpassed. This week, on the first anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt's death, that well-known voice was heard again: NBC brought out a twelve-record collection of excerpts from his speeches that will be broadcast this week by 80 NBC affiliates as part of a memorial program...
...Madison Square Garden. From a normal temperature of 80° F. the hangar can be cooled to -50° in 48 hours, or warmed from 25° to 165° in 16 hours. Wind machines whip up 100-mile-an-hour storms, complete with rain, snow or hail...
...British pilots, sailed the Channel on a minesweeper, lay in a London gutter to broadcast the sound of an air raid. This week, after nine years in England, Ed Murrow was off to the U.S. for good. But before he left, he spoke an eloquent "Farewell and Hail" over...
...sense this will be reunion as well as contest for the Crimson; Coach Floyd Stahl spent eight years at the Columbus school as varsity baseball coach, while four of the Crimson Varsity hail from Ohio and played college ball there, though not at Ohio State...
Columnist Graves was prone to quote such back-pats from admirers as this one: "Silver has its Bryan, the League of Nations its Wilson, the sensible free speech has you. ... All hail to the champion of freedom." To which Columnist Graves generously responded, in print: "All hail to you, too, Mr. Purdy...