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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Associated Press proposed two years ago to set up a $1,000,000 Wirephoto service for transmitting news pictures over telephone wires, AP Subscribers William Randolph Hearst and Roy Wilson Howard fought the plan as an "unjustifiable extravagance." First picture transmitted when Wirephoto got going last year was news: an airplane wreck in upper New York State. Other first-day photographs seemed to justify the Hearst-Howard complaints (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Hot Shots | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

...retained are: Roy M. Cohen '36, Edward J. Duggan '37, William T. Dean, Jr. '37, Robert Dunn '37, Arthur Ellison '37, Lawrence M. Finkel '37, William II, Lodgard '36, Michael Linenthal '36, Philip A. Lief '38, David P. McAllester '38, Wiley E. Mayne '38, Edward O. Miller '37, Edwin K. Packard '37, Vincent J. Rossi '37, John A. Sullivan, Jr. '38, Christopher G. Janus '36, Paul Killiam, Jr. '37, and John Lagsdin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PACKARD RETAINS 18 IN WADE COMPETITION | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

Iron-master Stalin yesterday showed a two-sided complexity that would do credit to a Talleyrand. In his recent interview with Roy Howard of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, he categorically states, in direct confirmation of the views of Chamberlin and Duranty, that non-interference, no Communist Party subsidizing, and peace with America stand primly and companionably among a row of other ideals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EASTERN SUNSET | 3/5/1936 | See Source »

...Canon City, Colo.'s prison, Warden Roy Best invited 100 convicts to watch the gas chamber execution of a pig in rehearsal of the execution of Murderer Otis McDaniels the following night. Said the Warden: "It gave them a mental picture for reference purposes of death in the gas chamber." Said McDaniels, excluded from the test execution: "I would have liked to have seen it." Following night the Warden invited a picked handful of convicts to watch the death of McDaniels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 2, 1936 | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...Commonwealth Symphony Orchestra is giving a free concert at Sanders Theatre tonight, with an introductory talk by Mr. Leichtentritt. The orchestra is sponsored by the W.P.A. Richard Burgin is conducting this week at the Boston Symphony concerts, and the program contains Roy Harris's Second Symphony, the suite of dances from "The Basque Venus" by Wetzler, and Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto no. 5 in E flat with Leonard Shure, local artist, at the piano. This is Mr. Shure's debut with the orchestra...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 2/27/1936 | See Source »

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