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...home, dressed and ready for dinner, John Pierpont Morgan sat down at a flat-topped desk, read into two boxlike microphones from a letter which lay there. NBC technicians who alone heard the voice nodded their approval, threw switches for a real broadcast. After an introduction by NBC President Merlin Hall Aylesworth, Banker Morgan donned gold-rimmed spectacles (usually he wears pince-nez), picked up in his right hand a manuscript which he had written longhand, spoke in an easy, deep "telephone" voice. It was Banker Morgan's first broadcast. He did it to help the "Block-Aid" campaign...
...Story of Merlin," Professor Pornadier, Sever...
...Story of Merlin," Professor Pornadier, Sever...
...sponsored program [i. e. advertising] that saved broadcasting from extinction. The goodwill of the public can be gained through broadcasting only by giving the public what it wants to hear."-Merlin Hall Aylesworth, president of National Broadcasting...
...those almost sacred precincts?microphones. To the "Met" they represented a compromise and a new source of income?an arrangement with National Broadcasting Co. reported to bring $250,000 for 25 broadcast operas. To the U. S. radio audience, it was briefly exciting ? speeches by NBC's President Merlin Hall Aylesworth and Board Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath of the Metropolitan, sounds of the orchestra tuning up under Conductor Karl Riedel, echoes of an audience which included many pleased youngsters. Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel was the opera, first whole performance to be broadcast from the Metropolitan. Composer Deems...