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CHILES: 47 (Orlando Sentinel) 44 (KPRC-TV)BUSH...
Individual stations are also dealing increasingly with the race question. On Minneapolis' WTCN, Let's Talk-A Black and White Dialogue is staging a candid examination of the difficulties of living off welfare. Houston's KPRC continues a similar series with a discussion of the role of the police. Chicago's WTTW has just launched a lively Today-type show called Our People. Guests include Negro entertainers, Legal Aid staffers who tell viewers their rights in dealing with ghetto merchants, and city officials who are grilled on Negro grievances...
...newscast over Houston station KPRC in 1936, Commentator Frank Colby mentioned the Dionne "KWIN-tyoo-plits." Listeners barraged him with protests; they said that the correct pronunciation was kwin-TUH-plits or kwinTOO-plits. After Colby had cited Webster to prove that his pronunciation was preferred, he decided to start a column in the Houston Chronicle about words, their pronunciation and derivation. It was such a success that Colby settled down full-time to writing a daily column, "Take My Word for It," now syndicated in 600 newspapers...
...chief sport was riding horseback. Once she was thrown, but climbed back on the nearest horse as soon as she got out of the hospital. She had a "planned life." She became executive director of station KPRC, a director of the Cleburne Na tional Bank, a member of the Board of Regents at Texas State Teachers College, president of the Texas League of Women Voters, Texas chairman of the Women's Committee for the New York World's Fair. In 1941, the War Department ap pointed her boss of a new women's publicity bureau...
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