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The Princeton project (directed by Drs. Paul F. Lazarsfeld, Frank Stanton and Hadley Cantril) had been studying radio on Rockefeller money for about a year when the Halloween panic popped practically in Nassau Hall. With a special grant of $3,000 from the Rockefeller General Education Board, Dr. Cantril and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Anatomy of a Panic | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

To most of 1,200,000 U. S. radio listeners who ran for the exits, peered down the pike for Martian invaders or otherwise conducted themselves oddly on the night before Halloween 1938, the Orson Welles broadcast based on H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds remains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Anatomy of a Panic | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

(Mars, Inc.-candy), and even in Washington (whither Gracie flew from Hollywood to attend the Women's National Press Club dinner and announce her convention: in Omaha, May 15-18), was a new twist to an old Gracie Allen stunt.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Ccmdidette | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

About an hour after sunset one will be able to see five planets, Mars, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury, in the southwestern sky. It may be hard, however, to distinguish between the smaller planets and the nearby stars.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBSERVATORY CALLS PLANET SHOW GOOD BUT NOT UNUSUAL | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

Boost for Canals. For more than half a century a dispute has raged in a mild way among astronomers as to whether the "canals" of Mars are real or optical illusions. The canals are easier for imaginative astronomers to see than to record on unimaginative photographic plates. But last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pops | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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