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...sweat of swift thinking ("hardest thing I ever had to do") CBS's News Chief Paul White decided that until it was more than an unconfirmed rumor, the cause of the alert should be treated as such. He called up NBC's News Chief Abe Schechter, reached an internetwork understanding. Slight inducement to panic thereafter came from CBS or NBC announcers...
...early '30s, when U. S. press services decided to withhold their news from radio, a short, stocky, ex-Worldman named Abe Schechter,* then in NBC's publicity department, was assigned the job of garnering enough items to provide Lowell Thomas with adequate scripts. Armed with only a telephone, Schechter proceeded to scoop the ears off many a paper. Often while reporters huddled in anterooms, Schechter, in the name of Lowell Thomas, was getting newsworthy statements over his wire. Before the press-radio feud was ended, he had correspondents all over the country. Even such eminents as Maryland...
This week, with the help of Collaborator Edward Anthony, Schechter recounts in an anecdotal history the saga of his eight years as newschief for NBC. Entitled I Live on Air,† his masterwork is sometimes lively, sometimes arch, in describing strange doings that range from wiring the pyramids in Egypt for sound to putting on a contest among singing mice. Many are the bad aerial breaks that he recalls. After an announcement of the Macon crash, while listeners were waiting frantically to find out how many had been killed, Ben Bernie cut loose with a number that ran: "Take...
...Schechter once arranged to have Pulitzer Prizewinner Arthur Krock broadcast from the men's room of a hotel. He is frank in describing his troubles with the round-the-world flight of Howard Hughes, which started out as an NBC exclusive, wound up as a field day for CBS and Mutual, which persistently got the jump on Schechter and his crew. He rates as the bluntest broadcast he ever heard James Roosevelt's defense of his business activities in reply to an attack by Alva Johnston. Excerpt from the Roosevelt script: "I have a feeling that being...
...chicken-dealing Brothers Schechter of Brooklyn, whose suit busted...