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Critics of radio commercials will be pleased to learn that these questions haunt no less a person than six-foot, greying Howard S. Meighan, 42, who is a CBS vice president. A huckster of 21 years standing, Meighan charged this week in the trade sheet Variety that radio's basic flaw is "the insincerity of language and manner used in the average . . . commercial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Radio, Aug. 1, 1949 | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...spirit of Hungary's Cardinal Mindszenty seemed to haunt his words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: We Believe in Each Other | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...theirs. All died at the hands of "The Creeper," a sinister, unseen character in last week's Suspense play over CBS television. But after the murder of Georgia, the redhead who lived in 4-D, Georgia came back to haunt her scripters and the network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Whodunit? | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

Minutes after Suspense was officially ended, Georgia was on the haunt. In all, more than 2,500 phone calls jammed CBS's Manhattan switchboard. Everyone had the same reasonable question: Whodunit? Apparently the scripters thought they had made it plain: "The Creeper" was the locksmith who had just come to fix Georgia's front door. Why, then, had the TV audience been confused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Whodunit? | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...company in Big Labor. The A.F.L.'s Political League called the Republicans "Northern Dixiecrats." A C.I.O. propagandist coined an angry name for the coalition: "Dixiegop," a nightmare animal with "the front legs and face of a donkey [and] the trunk and rear end of an elephant," which would haunt organized labor's dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Old Friends, Old Enemies | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

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