Word: merlins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Interested in Merlin Hall Aylesworth's resignation last week as president of National Broadcasting Co., Radio Corp. of America's broadcasting chain, were radio addicts; interested in his reason for resigning were cinemaddicts. Mr. Aylesworth attributed his resignation to press of work as chairman of Radio-Keith-Orpheum. Last year Floyd Bostwick Odium's Atla: Corp. and Lehman Bros, bought working control of RKO from RCA (TIME, Oct 21), soon followed this step by installing dapper Leo Spitz as RKO president (TIME Nov. 18). At the same time, RKO's President Aylesworth became...
Good Men and True (by Brian Marlow & Frank Merlin; Mr. Merlin, producer) intrudes into a jury room after a judge has handed over a murder case to five women and seven men, the defendant's peers. Jury duty usually has a few moments of genuine excitement but many more of tedium. So has Good Men and True...
Other guests there were, including Postmaster General Farley, President Merlin Hall Aylesworth of National Broadcasting, Dirigibilist Hugo Eckener and a few of Mr. Boomer's fellow Manhattan hotelkeepers. But the majority were European hotelmen who bore tales of lean years and no profits. There were a few notable exceptions, who reported good business, but the general tenor of the conference was so sad that most meetings were closed to the Press...
President Merlin Hall Aylesworth of National Broadcasting Co. gave Education a round scolding for having alienated its Radio pupils by "monotony and poor showmanship." Cried he: "People do not want to be educated. They want entertainment. . . . Our guilt lies in having been too big-hearted in our desire to help educators." By way of support. NBC's program director produced a testimonial from Henry L. Mencken: "The pedagogs now have all the time they can fill profitably-and more. Their programs are puerile and dull. There is no evidence that they would do any better if they...
...printed matter through the air, is looming on the horizon of science. ... I believe the day will come when you will turn on the facsimile receiver when retiring and in the morning the paper tape will tell the story of what flashed through the sky while you slumbered.-President Merlin Hall Aylesworth of National Broadcasting Co.¶ In 1949 the world's 20 largest corporations got together on a life-term installment program for goods and services. They offered each subscriber complete equipment for living-food, clothing, a home, an auto, a plane, television, and a world travel ticket...