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...inauguration of two-station broadcasts, WOR and WGN formed Mutual Broadcasting System on Oct. 1, 1934. They agreed to seek advertisers who wanted to utilize both stations, but not to interfere with each other's local programs. WOR and WGN also began exchanging sustaining (noncommercial) programs. Alfred Justin McCosker, president of WOR, became chairman of M. B. S.; Wilbert E. Macfarlane, vice president and business manager of the Chicago Tribune, became president. Mr. Macfarlane has been interested in WGN since the Tribune opened its station in 1925, has refused to let the chains dominate its policies. First taking...
...Boston, yearning to join the Navy, Justin Francis O'Leary, 16, set out for Annapolis, Md., bought an enlisted man's uniform, joined the Naval Academy midshipmen as they returned from a football game. Soon he was arrested for failing to salute officers, was brigged, questioned, sent home...
...JUSTIN McACHON New York City Astor Case Sirs: ... I should think you would fear intervention of the postal authorities for sending obscenity through the mails, after your super-scandal-mongering of the Mary Astor-George Kaufman case [TIME, Aug. iyj. What, please, is the news value of such an article? FREDERICK W. STERN Cincinnati, Ohio Sexy but not obscene, the Astor case testimony had this news value : It was the biggest Hollywood scandal in 14 years...
OSCAR WILDE DISCOVERS AMERICA- Lloyd Lewis and Henry Justin Smith- Harcourt, Brace ($4.50). In 1881 the inimitable musicomedies of Gilbert & Sullivan were all the rage on both sides of the Atlantic. Shrewd Producer D'Oyly Carte was planning to send the authorized version of his latest G. & S. operetta, Patience, on a U. S. tour. It was also his notion to send ahead, as unconscious pressagent, the notorious original of Patience's esthete hero, Oscar Wilde. Carte put the scheme to Oscar as a lecture tour, a mission to preach beauty to the barbarians. Oscar bit. Authors Lewis...
Died. Henry Justin Smith, 60, on the Chicago Daily News since 1899 (except for 1924-26, when he assisted University of Chicago's president), managing editor since 1926; of pneumonia; in Evanston, III. Under his tutelage developed many well-known newshawks, including Ben Hecht, Howard Vincent O'Brien, Edgar Ansel Mowrer, Poet Carl Sandburg...