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...owns a successful AM station, WTAO. Evidently, this approach has had considerable success with advertisers while still holding the audience. Perhaps the reason is that the station makes it clear through occasional talks between programs that it cannot continue unless the listeners support its advertisers. The response to this plea for loyalty and to this new advertising policy has been startling. Boston stores report that WXHR listeners from as far out as Worcester come all the way into town to buy records and radio equipment that they could have bought three blocks from their homes...
...whole thing was as stylized as the synopsis of a soap-opera plot. Exasperated by India's refusal to support the U.S. position in the United Nations, Congress was in no mood, week before last, to discuss India's plea for 2,000,000 tons of grain to feed its famine-threatened millions. Texas' Senator Tom Connally had pointedly announced that India would have to wait while a Foreign Relations subcommittee "looked into" the whole question of U.S.-Indian relations. Would Congress relent? Would India be left to starve...
Michigan. When the state senate balked at seating Democratic Senators Charles C. Diggs and Anthony Wilkowsky because each had previously served a prison term, Democratic Senator Robert A. Haggerty made a plea for tolerance: "I don't know any politician who wouldn't do what Wilkowsky did. I think they called it ballot-box stuffing...
...executive committee of the National Union of Mineworkers to a conference at 10 Downing Street. Because four or five members of the executive are Communists, including N.U.M. General Secretary Arthur Horner, Attlee did not appeal for more coal for defense; Horner was primed to resist any such plea. Instead, Attlee's Colonial Secretary, ex-Miner Jim Griffiths, gave the executive a comradely pep talk, said the government wouldn't let the miners down. At meeting's end, Attlee promised to redress the miners' grievances in return for their pledge that they would...
Matter of Principle. In Sheffield, England, Walter Marshall admitted his guilt and was fined ?50 for breaking a store windowdespite his plea that he threw the stone in outraged innocence after being unjustly fined ?10 for breaking the same window...