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Died. Frieda Hennock Simons, 55, an attorney, who served from 1948 to 1955 as the first female U.S. Federal Communications Commissioner, a crusader for educational TV; following brain surgery; in Washington...
...Richard A. Mack, 45, to be a member of the Federal Communications Commission, succeeding hardbitten, brass-voiced Frieda Hennock, 50. Lawyer Hennock, a breezy, New Dealing Democrat (but no darling of the party's congressional rank and file), was the first woman to serve on the FCC, was often a center of controversy in her seven years in office. Floridian Mack, a Democrat of calmer persuasion, is former chairman of the Florida Railroad and Public Utilities Commission, a current vice president of the National Association of Railroad and Utilities Commissioners, and an experienced practitioner before...
...most part, the showing was a success. FCC was "impressed." Said Chairman Rosel H. Hyde: "It is not unreasonable to expect that the commission will approve compatible color TV standards by Christmas." Commented FCC Commissioner Frieda Hennock: "Color doesn't make you look as fat as black and white...
...Houston last week, FCCommissioner Frieda Hennock kicked off her shoes for comfort and threw away her prepared speech for greater freedom of expression. Speaking on a subject dear to her heart, she was helping to dedicate station KUHT, the first noncommercial education TV station in the U.S. Commissioner Hennock rejoiced that, after 3½ years of work, "we're showing the scoffers, we're showing the world" that "education must have its own stations. You cannot mix free education with the profit motive...
Even though Miss Freida Hennock, contacted in Washington, remarked to the CRIMSON: "You've got a lot of money at Harvard. Why don't you get busy and apply for your own station?", the University itself, according to Bailey, is better off as a member of the Lowell Institute. Less money is necessary and more recourses are available...