Word: radioed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newcomer among the Sunday afternoon radio programs, the half-hour of contemporary music sponsored over WHDH by the Longy School is a step, though a small one, toward satisfying a very conspicuous need in radio music. These concerts will present the works of present-day composers, most of whom are writing prolifically in the smaller forms. The plan is timely and, we think, indicative of increasing interest among performers and audiences in the somewhat neglected realm of chamber and salon music. Though this is a non-commercial program, it is definitely not an amateurish undertaking, as the performers...
...best-paid and most eccentric was Bill Cunningham, temperamental sports artist of the Boston Post. Not syndicated, he filed a tax return last year on an income of $50,000. His salary from the Post was $21,000; the rest he got from magazine articles, lectures, radio broadcasting and assorted chores...
...gaslit era before cinema and radio, St. Nicholas was the No. 1 U. S. magazine for young people. Like the old quarry where swimming was forbidden, like the first ice on the pond in winter, it was an essential part of childhood-a storehouse of fruitful articles and hair-raising fiction for adolescents...
Founded in 1873 by Charles Scribner's Sons, then taken over by the Century Co., St. Nicholas began to decline after World War I as children turned to movies, radio, comic strips, and children's tastes grew steadily more sophisticated. To hold its market St. Nicholas lowered its age appeal year by year. Still circulation dropped: from a onetime high of around 100,000 it was down to less than 25,000 last year...
Seven Tower magazines (devoted to movies and radio, home and children, love and mystery) had shared a total circulation of some 900,000 copies before a Federal Grand Jury indicted Publisher Catherine McNelis for using the mails to defraud. (Case is still pending.) One of the best had been Tiny Tower for children, with around 150,000 readers...