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WQXR's success has been due not only to smart Technician Hogan, but to its equally smart general manager-Elliott Sanger. The station started out with a collection of four or five records, which were played over & over again. Today it has a collection of 10,000 and an orchestra of its own. Its programs attract about 6,000 letters a week...
...cloudy October morning, a long line of women in shawls, some of them holding babies, formed before a tenement in the slums of Brooklyn. When the doors were flung open, a young nurse with red hair welcomed the women in. Thus did Mrs. Margaret Sanger open the first U.S. birth-control clinic, 25 years ago last week...
...eight days, hundreds of mothers crowded the little clinic. But on the ninth day came a woman "large of build and hard of countenance"-a police spy. Next day the clinic was raided. Mrs. Sanger and her sister, Mrs. Ethel Byrne, who helped her, were sentenced to 30 days on Blackwell's Island for "operating a public nuisance." Sister Ethel went on a hunger strike, was the first woman to be fed forcibly in U.S. prison history. When the case was appealed Mrs. Sanger lost, but the way was opened for physicians to give birth-control advice. After...
Last week in Manhattan, a crowd of notables celebrated the 25th anniversary of Mrs. Sanger's clinic. They noted with pride that: 1) there are now more than 620 contraceptive centers all over the country, serving millions of women in 46 States (distributing birth-control information is still illegal in Massachusetts and Connecticut); 2) in a recent Gallup poll, 77% of U.S. citizens favored the teaching of contraception through Government health clinics...
...Glamor Tennist Alice Marble got a $1-a-year job with the Office of Civilian Defense to plump for national female fitness......Mum on her reasons, Lillian Gish abruptly checked out of the America First Committee....Birth Controler Margaret Sanger ascribed new difficulties of the birth-control movement in the U.S. to the existence of a totalitarian plot.....Elinor Glyn, who brought forth "It," came away from an interview with Britain's Minister of State declaring that what Beaverbrook had was "Vril." She said it meant energy......In England a hitchhiking aircraftsman thumbed a car in the country...