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Delicate problems faced National Broadcasting Co. last week. Swift & Co. fumed at something Listerine was about to do, insisted on doing. June 20 Listerine was to start a new program called "The Country Doctor." Author of the script is Phillips Haynes Lord, famed to radio listeners as "Seth Parker of Jonesport, Maine...
Successful with rustic Seth Parker on an NBC sustaining program, Author Lord last year wrote a script concerning "The Stebbins Boys," two elderly bachelors of Bucksport, Maine. In the same general rustic atmosphere as Seth Parker the Stebbins Boys manage their hotel and general store, act as a court of appeals for the village on all problems from political to amatory. A typical recent Stebbins dialog had to do with their beards. Suspected of being robbers at sea, they were told to take off their "disguises" by a Lieutenant McGee of the Coast Guard...
...program was bought by Swift & Co., an NBC client, and for a while Author Lord played in it. He then left to go on his famed personal appearance tour-"Seth Parker and his Jonesport Neighbors...
Last week in Washington Assistant Attorney General Seth Richardson's report on Hawaii was published. Early this year the Senate, stirred by the Massie rape, the Kahahawai killing (see above) and the Navy's charge that its women were not safe in Hawaii, caused Attorney General Mitchell to send Mr. Richardson for a personal investigation. His report flayed Honolulu's law enforcement, blamed politics for the current mess and deflated much of the race sensationalism attaching to the Massie and Fortescue cases. Excerpts...
...When Columbia's President Seth Low was elected Mayor of New York, everyone knew who would succeed him. Of an early faculty meeting at which young Professor Butler spoke, the late Dean John William Burgess later remarked: "I saw in a flash . . . that he would become president of Columbia and that Columbia would become the greatest institution on earth." Today Columbia University has 31,978 students in residence, is the world's largest institution of learning for men & women. Monuments to Dr. Butler are Teachers' College and its many affiliates, and Columbia's great summer school. Dr. Butler secured...