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...days of early wireless and radio were murky ones, and romantic ones, filled with enthusiasts trying to send a message through the dark. But it was World War I which made broadcast radio possible and salable, by consolidating electronics companies and freezing patent feuds. After the war, RCA wrested American Marconi from its British parents, exercised patent controls, and became, in effect, a commercial monopoly. Closed out of the RCA lode, Westinghouse established the first regular broadcast station, Pittsburgh's KDKA, and marketed the single-unit radio receiver it had developed for the army. Thus was a consumer market opened...
...stations could independently finance themselves, and, indeed, accrue profit. Two years later, advertising agencies paid performers high salaries, broadcasting was a national institution, and wavelength competition was cut-throat. Says Barnouw: "The crisis atmosphere...engulfed radio broadcasting in the mid-1920's. (It stemmed from) small v. powerful stations; patent allies v. competitors; patent allies v. antimonopolists; telephone v. manufacturing groups; copyright owners v. users; educational v. commercial interests; political ins v. outs...
...betrothed merit close scrutiny. Unlike, say, Luci Johnson, who was a fairly girlish and unformed 19 when she married Pat Nugent, Tricia Nixon, at 25, is a young lady of high, imperious and sometimes mysterious definition. Whatever the lollipop image her Buster Brown hats and patent shoes may have given her, Tricia is a cool, self-possessed woman with a porcelain near beauty and a talent for conservative mots. Some detect in her a steely if youthful combination of the manner of Grace Kelly and the views, not so oft expressed, of Martha Mitchell. And, of course, a psychogenetic blend...
...Patented Boots. Hogarth's shipmates treat him with something less than the dignity his accomplishment deserves. "I won't say what I'm called," he said, "except that it is blasphemous." Hogarth, nonetheless, plans to patent his boots, although he so far has no plans to put them on the market. Neither do his naval superiors. "We backed Hogarth." said a spokesman, "to show we have a sense of humor. We haven't thought of a practical use for the boots...
...cure as well as diagnose. Before long, he is in the hands of an ultramodern devil named Art Immelmann, who claims to be the liaison man for the somehow still-functioning Rockefeller-Ford-Carnegie foundations. Art explains that all three are anxious to fund lapsometer research in return for patent rights. Dr. More signs them over, and in no time at all the device is being used to foment further disorder. As a satire the book has something to offend just about everyone. Conservative Catholics, whose spiritual center is Cicero, Ill., celebrate Property Rights Sunday. Among the Reform Schismatics, several...