Word: radiomen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shirley May France of Somerset, Mass, had spent six weeks warming up for her second try at the English Channel. Six boatsful of reporters and radiomen were ready to follow her across. Shirley May herself was pretty confident. At 17, she was a year older, twelve pounds heavier (168), and a year wiser about the Channel than when she tried and failed last summer (TIME, Sept. 19, 1949). A little before 3 one morning last week, Shirley May, well-coated with sheep grease, waded into the water at Cap Gris Nez and struck out for Dover, 19 miles away...
...Radiomen piously defend crime programs on the grounds that they i) help the police in combating juvenile delinquency, and 2) prove that crime doesn't pay. Last week, a critic who should know told the radiomen to think up a better defense. Writing in the Monthly Record of Connecticut State Prison, Convict Le-Roy Nash (assault with intent to kill, 20-25 years) reported on 50 programs he had studied over a two-week period...
...speech at the University of Oklahoma last week, Wayne Coy, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said: "Our files of letters protesting crime programs are bulging." Noting the fondness of radiomen for charts and graphs, he offered some statistical guidance. More than 300 pediatricians, sociologists, neuro-psychiatrists and psychologists, said Coy, were questioned on the effects of crime programs. The results: 90% said such shows had a bad psychological effect on children; 93% said radio thrillers and programs ending in suspense had a bad effect; 81% agreed that present-day radio programs contribute to children's delinquency or antisocial...
...Equipment Workers already purged (TIME, Nov. 14), Murray had only a few more corners to clean: Harry Bridges' Longshoremen's union, the Marine Cooks' & Stewards', the Fishermen, the Fur and Leather Workers, the Furniture Workers, and the little but strategic American Communications Association (telegraph and radiomen...
...thousands of live-alone Government girls. Encouraged, Godfrey began applying the same personal approach to his commercials ("Whew!" he would say after reading some copywriter's purple prose advertising lace undies). Everybody was outraged but his listeners, and when the listeners hurried to buy, sponsors and radiomen quickly calmed down. Godfrey had learned a lesson he has never forgotten: "They don't care what you say on the air as long as it sells...