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...Kansas City Star last week got its punishment. Federal Judge Richard M. Duncan fined the paper $5,000 and also fined Advertising Director Emil A. Sees $2,500 for attempting to monopolize. A companion civil suit, still pending, seeks to force the Star Co. to divorce its radio-TV station, WDAF, from its newspapers and to split up the evening Star and its morning sister, the Times, into two separate papers as far as circulation and ad rates are concerned. Said Star President Roy Roberts: "Of course the Star and Mr. Sees will promptly appeal, in full confidence...
...station Yankee Network for $1,340,000 to broaden General Tire's tax base and to advertise General Tire's products. In 1946, young Tom took over the network and quickly expanded. He pushed into TV, began broadcasting on his first station (Boston's WNAC-TV) in 1948, from there started building up General Tire's other big radio-TV interest: the Mutual Network, of which General Tire owned...
...network with its 45 Western radio stations. A year later, he got control of Manhattan's WOR and WOR-TV by buying out Macy's interest, and later got control of Mutual. At the same time, General Tire had been merging all its radio-TV holdings, which became General Teleradio in 1952, with Tom O'Neil as president of the new company. Says his father: "That Tom, he makes money...
...Announced that he would address the nation Friday night at 8:15 E.D.T. on the national radio-TV networks. Subject: his "hopes for accomplishment" at the Parley at the Summit...
Arriving in Washington for a radio-TV appearance, Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio avoided the tumult and the shouting, kept mostly to himself until time to go to the studio. Then, reluctantly, and only under the nagging of Meet the Press Panelist Lawrence Spivak, De Sapio made news that set Democratic party lines to buzzing across the nation...