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...Reader Miller is quite right. TIME misinterpreted the figures it used. On the basis of two samplings made in July, C.A.B. got a "median rating" for evening half-hour programs of 6.2%-that is, the average program in that category reached between six and seven radio homes out of 100. This was not, as TIME said, a low point since 1930 but simply a summer low for 1941. High for 1941: 12.4%, in February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 6, 1941 | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...This half-hour mock air raid furnished the wow-at-the-finish of the Fifth Annual Police Show last week in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. It also scared the whey out of the 50,000-odd New Yorkers who bought tickets to it. The cast consisted of more than 700 New York cops and units from the city's new corps of 100,000 air-raid wardens. Sound effects were rebroadcast British recordings of one of last September's air blitzes, described by the excited cop announcer as "the London terrible bombings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOME FRONT: Terrible Bombings | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

Aviation Cadet Vinson Wieser was lost on a cross-country night flight. He had only a half-hour of gasoline in his tanks. He headed his plane for the brightest spot he could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Forced Landing | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...Laurence Stallings' and Maxwell Anderson's What Price Glory? This time, in the guise of burly, hard-voiced Edmund Lowe and hulking, grim-visaged Victor McLaglen (who enacted the cinema roles), they appear not in the old story, but in a new radio serial, a brisk, jaunty half-hour show on NBC's network (Sunday 7:30 p.m. E.S.T...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Quirt & Flagg Back | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...reached the side alley that went down to the stage door, where he was assaulted by a host of theatre friends and colored shoe-shine boys. Passing through them with hurried, friendly greetings, he answered one more question before going up to his dressingroom in time for the half-hour curtain call. When asked whether or not he considered Harvard tolerant to the colored race, he insisted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Actor Canada Lee Claims Education Is Best Antidote For Color Prejudice | 9/26/1941 | See Source »

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