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When the Blue Network had the happy notion of calling itself the ABC (for American Broadcasting Corp.), one Leonard Adrian Versluis (rhymes with caboose) protested. His Associated Broadcasting Corp. of Grand Rapids claimed prior rights to the catchy initials. This week Versluis' ABC announced that it was about to become (on Sept. 16) the nation's fifth coast-to-coast network...
Dutch-descended Leonard Versluis, 47, is a dapper go-getter who made a fortune operating a chain of photographic studios in Michigan. In 1940, he built a station in Grand Rapids as a sideline, went on from there to the Wolverine Network, then last year blossomed out with...
...record of the mechanics of the change whereby socialist states are transformed into police states. It is important as a moral and political indictment of Europe's and Asia's No. 1 power. And it is a readable story of escape and survival from a police network whose agents are kept almost as busy abroad as they are in Omsk and Tomsk...
...this time they could not spread the job evenly over a network of eastern roads. The enormous load had to be carried by the seven thin western lines which finger out from the midwest, snake through the high, twisting passes of the Rockies and drop down from the high sierra to the key ports of the West Coast, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Portland...
...Daily News doubled its customary 24 news broadcasts a day. The Post, Times, Daily Mirror and Journal-American all aired special news programs, as well as some of their daily features. Network outlets stepped up their news coverage...