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...Saki's short stories, written in World War I, concerns an idealist named Harvey Bope who followed a peace-council suggestion, bought his nephews toys representing municipal buildings, Economist John Stuart Mill, other greats of civil life. A half-hour later he found that the boys had punched holes in the buildings for imaginary cannon, had dyed John Stuart Mill to make him look like a French marshal. Said saddened Harvey Bope: "The experiment has failed...
...week for a martyr's crown to put on the head of America First. At the moment Mr. Flynn was able to make his sweeping declamation because Mutual Broadcasting System, which recorded the entire rally, had time free to rebroadcast only Senator Burton K. Wheeler's half-hour...
Neither NBC nor CBS broadcast any of the proceedings. At America First's request a fortnight before, NBC had offered its only free time that night: a half-hour between 10:30 and 11 on a 62-station network east of Chicago. CBS, on the other hand, having no time free of commercials that night, declined to sacrifice any income in order to make time. Senator Wheeler huffily turned down NBC's offered half-hour as "inadequate...
Words Without Music, by Norman Corwin for Columbia. A half-hour of poetic comedy with Arnold's Dover Beach tossed in for good measure...
Payson S. Wild, Jr., associate professor of Government, has been signed up as the featured speaker against the Neutrality Act and three undergraduates and one Law School student will talk during the remainder of the half-hour...