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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Edgar Kobak became boss of the Mutual Broadcasting System, it was a nationwide junkpile of 247 "light bulbs" and "coffee pots" (low-power radio stations). That year (1944), advertisers spent $19,600,000 for Mutual's thin air; in 1946, $25,800,000. And this week Mutual signed up its 400th station: Atlantic City's 250-watt WMID. It was the 15th station to join Mutual in 15 days, the 153rd since Kobak took over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Great Salesman | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...around and make like a slave-driver. But all his employees know that Ed is just kidding; he's really a card. His office door is always open, and to make perfectly sure that nobody gets any uppity ideas, Ed has had interoffice partitions torn down in Mutual's Manhattan offices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Great Salesman | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...fast start in radio as NBC's sales manager; he laid the commercial foundations of the Blue Network (now ABC) almost singlehanded. When he came to Mutual, Coca-Cola transferred its $2,000,000 account, just to be with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Great Salesman | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...months of disinterested effort by various individuals and committees lie behind the document which comes up for undergraduate approval this afternoon--six months which saw bitter attacks and mutual suspicion give way to progressive cooperation of a sort unique in the history of student affairs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE | 2/6/1947 | See Source »

Twenty Questions (Sat. 8 p.m., Mutual). For people who like their parlor games played by somebody else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Feb. 3, 1947 | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

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