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DIED. Al Hodge, 66, onetime actor best known as Captain Video, television's first kiddie hero; of lung disease; in Manhattan. Already a popular radio performer who had played the Green Hornet from 1936 to 1943, Hodge joined the DuMont network serial Captain Video and his Video Rangers in 1950 and for the next six years, rocketed around the 23rd century universe, battling a galaxy of such villains as Mook the Moon Man and Spartak of the Black Planet. His re-entry was rough, however. Indelibly typecast as the galactic commander-he was even addressed as "Captain" while testifying...
Even The La Palina Smoker was not enough to keep alive United Independent Broadcasters, the tiny network on which it was heard; in 1928 the owner approached Paley's father and offered to sell. Sam refused, but Bill, who had $1 million in his own account, grabbed the bargain, a measly $503,000, and ran. UlB's problem, he recognized, was that it was not big enough. He reorganized, offering greater inducements to affiliates, and within the space of a few months increased the network from 16 stations to 49. Along the way, it was renamed...
Trying to win prestige for his network, Paley even laid siege to the Metropolitan Opera, whose president and chairman, Financier Otto Kahn, was outraged that anyone would want to hear a mezzo-soprano through the static of the air waves. At last Paley persuaded him to come to his office and hear a performance he had piped in. "We heard the overture," he relates, "and several minutes of singing into the first act and still no one reacted. Then Kahn leaped to his feet and exclaimed: 'I can't believe it. It's simply marvelous . . . and just...
East/West Network rules the friendly skies of in-flight monthlies...
...takeoff is Jeffrey S. Butler, 39. A onetime Pacific Southwest Airlines public relations director, Butler made a previous contribution to aviation history by outfitting PSA stewardesses in tangerine-colored hot pants. When PSA balked at his plan to put out an in-flight magazine, he formed East/West Network, Inc. Butler gradually picked up other clients, and today the Los Angeles-based firm publishes magazines for PSA, Allegheny, Continental, Eastern, Hughes Airwest, Ozark, Pan Am, Southern, Texas International and United.* East/West figures that last year a total of 10 million passengers read the magazines each month. Combined revenues were $20 million...