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...woman has learned how to paint pictures that will last forever-or at least 1,000 years-but now she can't paint them any more. For ten years tall, dark-eyed, strikingly chic Chicago socialite Buell Mullen crusaded for an art new-fashioned to fit a chromium, copper and aluminum age and developed a method of painting on metal. Now she has only enough war metal on hand to see her through this year. A mural commissioned by International Business Machines has been shelved for the duration, because neither she nor the company cares...
...visit to Mexico in 1940. Like many a language student before him, he discovered that songs improve the ear, enlarge the vocabulary and warm the heart. Mexican popular songs are good. Mr. Wallace listened, learned, sang. One evening last autumn he talked to NBC's Executive Frank Mullen about a radio program to teach Spanish that...
Hardbitten, bright-eyed Mr. Mullen set NBC's assembly lines in motion. Fortnight ago the ' Wallace dream boat slid down NBC's ways with launching speeches by gracious Señorita Castillo Najera, daughter of the Mexican Ambassador, and Mr. Wallace. At network stations the National Federation of Music Clubs, the National Federation of Business & Professional Women's Clubs held listening parties...
...National Farm & Home Hour had its small beginnings over Pittsburgh's KDKA in 1923. It was the brainchild of a big, burly studio pianist named Frank Mullen, who was at the time all choked up with nostalgia for the fields of South Dakota where he spent his boyhood. Mullen's system was to read all the farm bulletins he could lay hands on, then whack out a few tunes to fill in. Immediately popular in the Pittsburgh area, the Hour was adapted to NBC specifications in 1926. Since 1928, when the Hour went on a national hookup...
Shrewd Frank Mullen early secured for the Hour the cooperation of the Department of Agriculture, the National Grange, the Farmers' Union, the American Farm Bureau Federation, the National 4-H Club, the Association of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities. As Secretary, Henry Wallace used its facilities over 100 times to speak to his farm constituency...