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Throughout New England's college towns last week, a live-wire topic was Brown University's proposal for an intercollegiate radio network. For the last three years Brown has had a wire hookup of receivers in the rooms of 1,600 students, thinks that an ivy network could pay its way with radio ads, would provide a novel medium for exchange of undergraduate thought and enterprise...
...Exception: Joe Louis fight nights, several of which have had the biggest audiences in radio history. Against Chilean Arturo Godoy last week (see p. 52), Joe had a 95-station U. S. hookup, an NBC short-wave pipe line to 54 Latin and South American stations...
...calling Caro, Mich., 583, catch him in Bathroom No. 3. A request for 584 will connect the caller with the Southwest Bedroom; 592 with the Furnace Room; 597 with the Maid's Quarters, and 590 with both ends of the Dining-Room Table. Despite this room-to-room hookup, there is a flaw in the service. If Mr. Moore were in his Den (589) and a friend called him in the Front Upper Hall (593), he would likely as not fail to hear the phone ring, miss the call. From this intense coverage the Moore system is an average...
From long experience, audiences know at first blush that the high-minded young man with whom Clerk Klara Novak (Mar garet Sullavan) is corresponding through a lonely-hearts hookup is her detested fellow clerk, Kralik (James Stewart). They also know that Hugo Matuschek is all wrong in suspecting Kralik of mis conduct with Mrs. Matuschek. The culprit, as everybody else can see, is oily Clerk Vadas. The outcome is equally certain...
Last weekend, over a 27-station MBS eastern hookup, audiences heard a newsy newcomer in radio programs-a weekly behind-scenes news and feature "column" entitled Confidentially Yours. In its first network broadcast, Confidentially Yours had a lot to say that was not particularly confidential about the Hore-Belisha bust-up in Britain, about the Duchess of Windsor's untenanted officers' hospital in France. But it did tell audiences, in the area in which most U. S. Jews are concentrated, a likely item of Jewish news: "One of the largest armies in the modern history of the Jewish...