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...press received GE's metal tube cordially, spoke of the first "radical change" since Lee de Forest bobbed up with the three-element audion tube in 1907. Far from cordial was Philco Radio & Television Corp., which has small esteem for metal tubes and no stomach whatever for a possible public swing in that direction. Philco bought a full page in the New York Times ($4,500) to launch a counterblast. Recalling an ill-starred experiment with metal tubes in Britain, Philco warned that a "pell mell rush" into metal might also have disastrous consequences here. Points...
...Government has banned all blurbs from its state stations (TIME, Jan. 7), private French stations like Poste Parisien on the I. B. C. chain are cleaning up with such appeals to patriotic Frenchmen as "Hear the temple bells of Saigon, French Indo-China, in your own home with a Philco...
...There are 17 million families ready to purchase television receiving sets. They are waiting for the engineers to come through."-Harry Boyd Brown, merchandising manager of Philco Radio, to Manhattan's Sales Executives Club last week...
...German importation on the Lindbergh theme which Conductor Leopold Stokowski considered worthy of two Philadelphia orchestra performances in Philadelphia last week. Perhaps because it was composed expressly for radio performance,*Stokowski chose to give it in the last of four nationwide broadcasts sponsored by the Philadelphia (Philco) Storage Battery...
...This is my second attack of radio-induced "cacocthes scribendi"; Christmas Day the glorious music of Philco made me realize that there may be a Heaven after all! I'm reconciled if Saint Peter will allow Leopold Stokowski to direct the harps-with a few wind instruments added as a concession to modernity...