Word: radioman
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Intent to Kill. The Skymaster's dying radioman got off an S O S; then the defenseless British airliner flamed out of the sky, flattened out and slid onto the water. Nine persons including an American father and his two sons, aged two and four years, sank with the plane; nine survived on a life raft...
...Stockholm, Sweden's popular Radioman Lennart Hyland used his show to promote a "free wives' day." The gimmick: Swedish wives should take a Sunday off and let their husbands do all the housework. After some masculine grumbling, most Swedes (from Prime Minister Tage Erlander down to Mechanic Anders Larsson) pitched in while their wives went off to the movies or on specially run railroad excursions. Grocers reported a tremendous rise in the sale of canned goods...
Young Eddie Cantor acted in Alliance-sponsored plays, Arthur Murray learned to dance there, and Morris Cohen discussed philosophy in the Comte Synthetic Circle. Radioman David Sarnoff and Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver got encouragement from sympathetic teachers...
...Another radioman dangled a microphone from a projection booth in the committee's conference room, but conked a member on the head with it and was evicted...
...Radioman Hofheinz broadcast a defense of the editors, added: "There may be those who say that Hoiles is a harmless crackpot. A man backed with a reputed $20 million and a chain of newspapers cannot be classed as a harmless crackpot." It looked as if Hoiles might have to mend his editorials, if he wanted to stay in the valley...