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Vincent Paul Sullivan is one of the few radio news commentators without a newspaper background. Twenty-eight-year-old son of Missouri Pacific Railroad's chief tariff inspector, he was born in St. Louis, operated an amateur radio station as a boy, worked as announcer at various Midwestern stations after leaving Christian Brothers College and studying law. He reads aloud at home to improve his enunciation, has been broadcasting WLW's news reports, written from wire service releases by the station's newsroom, since last year...
...editor of your Sport Department reports nationally interesting athletic events. The occasion for my latest bit of amusement is the comparison of the recent Drake and Penn Relays [TIME, May 4]. This fellow is obviously an Eastern man, or he would not attempt so often to belittle Midwestern and Far-Western events, nor would he show on occasions a total lack of understanding with regard to events held outside the eastern one-sixth of these United States...
Chief effect of the Federation to date has been to win Milwaukee's Socialists a kiss of death from their city's tiny, impotent Communist Party. Mayor Hoan, who hates revolution and dictators with all his Midwestern soul, has vehemently disclaimed the Red endorsement. But William Randolph Hearst's Milwaukee Wisconsin News was screaming last week: "A MAJORITY OF MILWAUKEE WOMEN DO NOT INTEND TO LONGER' TOLERATE A COMMUNIST-ENDORSED CITY ADMINISTRATION! . . . COMMUNISTS WHO OPENLY DEMAND THE DESTRUCTION OF THE FAMILY, THE HOME AND THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION...
Listeners who had formed their impression of Communism from the Hearst Press must have received a distinct shock when small, sandy-haired Comrade Browder, son of a Kansas schoolteacher and longtime certified public accountant, began to speak in the tone of a mild, ingratiating Midwestern college professor. As he went on, alert listeners realized that most of his sentences could have been lifted almost verbatim from the speeches of the nation's most famed and respectable public characters. Samples...
There will be little rest for the Harvard hoopmen. For after a scant three day vacation they start on their Midwestern Christmas trip, during which they will meet Toledo University, Wittenberg, and Ohio State. Fesler's traveling squad is composed of Captain Leavitt White, Ray Lavietes, Bill Gray, Jack Dampeer, Jack Mason, George Lowman, Louis McGowan, Jack Herrick, Art Snell, and Dick Wills...