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...broadcasting industry was therefore not pleased by a letter at the end of August from Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, and Sen. John O. Pastore (D-R.I.), chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Communications, to Leroy Collins, president of the NAB. The leter condemned repors of increased hard liquor adverising on the airwaves, and threatened that "the Congress stands ready to move ahead with appropriate legislation in the event self-regulation proves to be ineffective...
...only a fledgling operation in 1949 when the U.S. Public Health Service, aware that lung cancer was striking down European uranium miners, decided to launch a quiet, long-term study of workers in the ore-rich Colorado Plateau mines. Last week the PHS's Dr. Harold J. Magnuson, results in hand, dashed to Denver for an emergency meeting with four Western Governors. The news he carried was alarming: the death rate from lung cancer among uranium miners is five times as great as that of U.S. men in general...
...against Kennedy through his West Virginia mountains last week. "For two years I've been talking, Lyndon up out in my state," says Nevada's Alan Bible. "He'd be a honey of a President," glows Wyoming's Gale McGee. Washington's Warren Magnuson furloughed his able administrative assistant, Irvin Hoff, for a brief forward observer's mission through the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast states to seek out the delegates and discover the arcane pockets of potential Johnson strength. Nor are the Johnson enthusiasts restricted to the Senate: two of his closest Washington...
...driver who could speak their language. The agency provided a Mexican who spoke Castilian Spanish, was baffled when the Brazilians were not satisfied. Said the tour manager plaintively: "They wanted someone who could speak Portuguese Spanish." To help eliminate such troubles, Washington's Democratic Senator Warren G. Magnuson has introduced a bill to set up a federal U.S. tourist bureau...
WASHINGTON'S WARREN MAGNUSON (who is being discussed as a successor to Democratic Chairman Butler) : "Whether the Democrats like it or not, the country is getting sensitive about the budget...