Word: hogans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortnight ago WQXR's power was stepped up to 10,000 watts-the second boost within a year. Behind each increase is the desire of WQXR's founder and president, smallish, paunchy, deep-voiced John Vincent Lawless Hogan, to broadcast good music with maximum accuracy...
...people in New York City and environs to support a station that shuns soap opera, funnymen and corny commercials, WQXR has whooped up its earnings from $9,174 in 1936 (when the station graduated from experimental ranks) to $177,074 in 1940. Just for the hell of it, Mr. Hogan augmented WQXR's income in 1939 with $20,000 picked up by selling Hogan-devised sets to WQXR listeners. He was an associate of Radio Inventor Lee de Forest...
WQXR's success has been due not only to smart Technician Hogan, but to its equally smart general manager-Elliott Sanger. The station started out with a collection of four or five records, which were played over & over again. Today it has a collection of 10,000 and an orchestra of its own. Its programs attract about 6,000 letters a week...
President Hogan hopes to do likewise with his FM station W2XQR. Another important sideline with him is a wireless facsimile system he thought up in 1933. It is being used now by the Canadian Signal Corps...
...other occasions Wood has lost both the U.S. and British Opens in playoffs. This time his 284 was three strokes better than the score of his nearest rival, Denny Shute, and five strokes better than that of third-place Ben Hogan. The next best score turned in by a Texan was the 295 of Lloyd Mangrum. Mighty Byron Nelson...