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...high in radio advertising was reached a month ago when Liggett & Meyers Tobacco Co. started Leopold Stokowski and his Philadelphia Orchestra broadcasting six nights a week for Chesterfield cigarets (TIME, Nov. 27). This week Cadillac Motor Cars and Lucky Strike cigarets overtook Chesterfields. Cadillac started a rich symphonic series for Sunday nights (6 to 7 E. S. T.). Bruno Walter conducted the first concert, Jascha Heifetz fiddled. Conductors to come: Artur Bodanzky, Eugene Ormandy, Walter Damrosch, Fritz Reiner, Sir Henry Wood...
Thanks to Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co., makers of Chesterfield cigarets, radio listeners, starting next Tuesday, will be able to hear the highest type of symphonic music every night of the week but Sunday for some time to come. The programs will be given by expensive Leopold Stokowski and 65 members of his peerless Philadelphia Orchestra, from 9 to 9:15 (E. S. T.). First night, Nov. 28: excerpts from Parsifal. Each Philadelphia Orchestraman will earn $12 per broadcast...
Crashes. Second day brought a stiff wind, bumpy air and the meet's first fatality. Just after noon 27-year-old Roy Liggett of Omaha went up for a trial run. Nosing his plane into a 25-mile wind, he was making 200 m.p.h. at about 500 ft. when his left wing suddenly dropped off. The little red racer rolled over, dove cock-pit-deep into a cornfield. The fabric ripped from a wing of the yellow-&-red G. B. racer as Florence E. Klingensmith, 26, of Minneapolis was driving it around a pylon. The plane tottered into...