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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt the radio audience ever got was that culled from recordings of his 1932-33 speeches by a Chicago pressagent for Senator Arthur Vandenberg's bizarre "spook" debate with him over CBS in the 1936 campaign. One day last month, however, in the White House's fireside-less Diplomatic Room from which all the fireside chatshave been broadcast, Franklin Roosevelt sat down with National Emergency Council Chairman Lowell Mellett and recorded a 15-minute interview...
...battery-run radio sets in the U. S. today, most of them operating on 2-volt tubes designed in 1930 to operate on heavy-duty, "air cell" batteries. Key to the 1938-39 portable is a low-drain, 1.4-volt tube developed last year. This tube, requiring slightly less "A" voltage and only 90 (instead of 135) volts for the "B" circuit, uses about one-third as much current as the 2-volt tube...
...toward Brown's Bank, off the Nova Scotia coast. To Seaman Fred Bourque, on the bow watch, the fog seemed to thicken as dawn came. Suddenly, 20 feet dead ahead, a great silhouette showed. Fred Bourque shouted a warning to Billy Oilman at the wheel, ran aft. In less time than it takes to gut a cod the Isabelle Parker had piled halfway through the Gloucesterman Edith C. Rose, southbound with her hold stuffed with catch from Brown's Bank. The watch below came tumbling up in undershirts. They saw that it was over for both ships...
...reddish-haired Director Webster was born-"a small tangerine-colored object"-34 years ago in Manhattan. On both sides she comes of English actors : famed Dame May Whitty is her mother, Shakespearean Actor Ben Webster her father. Acting since childhood, Margaret Webster slid into directing because the field was less crowded, but admits she prefers acting. Though she professionally directed a score of plays in England, it was in the U. S. three years ago, with Evans' Richard II, that she first directed Shakespeare. Directing plans for next year: Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. Some day: Shakespeare...
...California Physicians' Service is the first State-wide system of medical care in the U. S. Insurance is limited to employed groups of five or more persons whose incomes are less than $3,000 a year. For rates of $2.50 a month per person, subscribers will receive complete medical and surgical care and three weeks' hospitalization for any one illness...