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Franklin Roosevelt slept through the fall of France with a clear conscience, awaking in time for the 8 a.m. radio newscast. For this moment he was prepared, as ever. Now was the time, at last, to jerk from his hat something bigger than a rabbit. Months ago, the President had pondered the grave new world, had brooded on the dread possibility of a United States of Germany which would have terrific economic striking power.* As usual, the President asked aides to submit suggestions. An adviser with a real passion for anonymity, working under Harry Hopkins and Adolf Berle, conceived...
Samuel II. Cross '12, professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, does not confine his activities to the classroom and Widener. Every Monday afternoon this fall he will be found in the studies of shortwave station WRUL (formerly W2XAL) directing a foreign language newscast aimed at Europe...
Among U. S. citizens who listened, hair-on-end, to Actor Orson Welles's Martian newscast (TIME, Nov. 7) was a doddypolled 22-year-old airplane mechanic named Cheston Lee Eshleman. More piqued than panicked, he got an idea. He wanted to pay the Martians a return visit, stake out a refuge for "harmless people" during the next war. Secretly, he wrote to Britain for maps and other information that would be useful in a transatlantic flight...
...Subscriber Griffith all praise for a worthy idea. TIME will newscast to ships on both the Pacific and Atlantic as soon as arrangements can be completed...