Word: networker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back at the root of Network history is a man named Kenneth Richter, who tried to found a station in December of 1939. After floundering around without funds or University approval for several months, he went to the Crimson, interested President Spencer Klaw '41 in the project, and then vanished mysteriously from recorded history. The daily was interested in fathering the Network chiefly to keep possible advertising and news gathering competition in hand...
When the Crimson Network decided to take on the dignified name of "Harvard Radio Network" last week, it severed the last shred of the umbilical cord that bound it to its parent organization, The Harvard Crimson. Before it was big enough to toddle about, the Network had been nourished with Crimson funds and fed upon the services of the paper's editors and bookkeepers. The broadcasting unit was not long in growing up, however, and began running its own affairs almost before the College knew it had a radio station...
...student rooms by tapping the radio to the radiators. After three weeks of such operation, a smug technician heard the station over his automobile receiver on the way home from Wellesley somewhere in the Newtons. F.C.C. has strict limits on the radiation of unlicensed stations, so the Network turned from the radiators to the cold water pipes...
With a moral and financial boost from the Crimson, the Network got University recognition and set up studios in the now defunct Shepard Hall on Holyoke Street. Its executive board was, in the very beginning, a part of the Crimson masthead and largely peopled by Crimeds. It soon became obvious, however, that the Network was being run by Network men, and the two organizations began slipping apart in a complicated series of negotiations that came to an end only last week...
WHEN will carry Sir Alexander Cadogan's address on "Problems and Prospects of the United Nations" tonight at 8:30 o'clock, Network officials announced yesterday. The British representative to the Security Council will speak from the New Lecture Hall, under the sponsorship of the U. N. Council...