Word: radiomen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least that much attention. It had all the standard problems of any independent-the unequal struggle with networks for talent, sponsors and listeners-plus the competition of New York's ten other independents. And Manager Thackrey had made an uphill fight steeper by adopting a principle which most radiomen consider a contradiction in terms: "I want to make the station pay, and still make it do a real public service." But she also had advantages which few independent radiomen could match: practically unlimited cash and connections...
Last week Recordist Howard had some hard words for radiomen: "Most stations play a hundred records a day, and they play every last one wrong. Take the new Crosby show. Everybody complains that Bing has lost his voice, that the recording is tinny and distorted. That's nonsense. Bing sings about as well as he ever did, and the recording is all right. It's the stations that play it wrong. The grooves in a record are cut at varying angles and depths with styli of varying sizes. Records have to be played back with corresponding needles...
Radio's most famous linesman passed into limbo last week. The Cooperative Analysis of Broadcasting, Inc., sponsor of the "Crossley rating" system, closed its Manhattan office and went out of business. Cause of death: radiomen decided last summer that the industry-financed C.A.B. was duplicating the independent telephone poll of C. E. Hooper (TIME...
Hardboiled Harry Lundeberg' in the West, and in the East, medium-boiled John Hawk of the A.F.L. Seafarers International, yanked out 43,000 men. Longshoremen, tugboat men, radiomen, masters, mates and pilots announced that they would support the strike. Machinists in repair yards "hit the bricks." Even C.I.O.'s wily Johnny announced that he would respect A.F.L.'s picket lines, although he promised to work UNRRA ships...
Question of Self-Respect. Harold Ickes then held a spectacular press conference in the Interior Department's auditorium. His aides, newsmen, photographers and radiomen with recording apparatus swarmed in. In his crusty old voice he made his position doubly clear -either "I had forsworn myself and made false statements under oath or someone else has." He went on the radio: "A man has to live with himself. I have to spend the rest of my life with Harold Ickes and I could no longer, much as I regret it, retain my self-respect and stay in the Cabinet...