Word: newe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thereupon Elliott tried a bold stunt. He offered to hire many of the existing MBS coast-to-coast wire circuits for two hours a night, 8-10 EST. The answer was No. So last week Elliott went to work on an even bolder enterprise-a brand new national network...
Obstacles. First job of any new network is leasing point-to-point A. T. & T. circuits, which cost basically $8 a mile for a month of 16-hour radio days. A. T. & T. seldom has an oversupply of coast-to-coast circuits. Network men on the outside withheld judgment on TBS's prospects until they could find out: 1) whether TBS could get wire lines; 2) whether the business it had lined up would warrant an annual outlay of $800,000 to $1,000,000 for lines; 3) whether it could keep enough important stations in line to survive...
Last week Biochemist Paul Leland Kirk of the University of California and a graduate student, Clifton Bennett, announced a sure, swift, new syphilis test. A sore trial for pathologists, the speedy test, invented in 1935 by Dr. George Franklin Laughlen of Toronto, Ont., was fussed over for four years before it could be made practical for general use. Using the new technique and "Laughlen antigen" in 150 syphilis blood samples, Professor Kirk called all the shots, made no false diagnoses...
Said Monologuist Cornelia Otis Skinner, interviewed in New Orleans: "Hollywood is cheap, it's tawdry, it's wicked. The people in power are so horrible that my friends, men and women who speak my language, are miserably unhappy there...
Elected president of the National Association of Performing Artists, an organization of musicians to protect their work against unauthorized recording, was James John ("Jimmie") Walker, ex-Mayor of New York City, ex-composer (Will You Love Me in December As You Do in May?). Keynoted talented Artist Walker: "This organization is . . . determined to eradicate the practice of highjacking the talents of American artists...