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Shortly after it was organized, MBS attracted WLW in Cincinnati, went on to add John Shepard Ill's Colonial network and the Don Lee network on the West Coast to its chain. Big recommendation for Mutual with advertisers was the fact that it insisted only on the purchase of its three big units, WOR, WGN, WLW, with other units to be added at pleasure. Not until June 1936 did it reach a coast-to-coast status. That occurred when CBS offered to buy the Don Lee network, which turned to cooperative Mutual instead...
Meanwhile the Army, screaming for more ships, decided it would dig up a production man for Republic. The man: energetic Ralph Shepard Damon, 44, whose five years as American Airlines operations vice president were preceded by two decades of aircraft designing and building, mostly with Curtiss-Wright. Damon became president last May; Kellett moved up to chairman (and finance-watcher...
...Manager Fred Weber denounced this as an attempt to "coerce, influence or restrain the free choice of action" of Mutual's affiliates. Mutual President Wilbert E. Macfarlane pled lengthily for ratification, while ASCAP officials lurked hopefully near by. Neville Miller's pleas and the opposition of John Shepard III, bulky, argumentative president of New England's Yankee and Colonial networks whose stations pipe in many a big-chain program, deadlocked the voters...
...called another on a yacht, but failed to locate Fort Worth's Captain Elliott Roosevelt. Mail, wire and phone votes rolled in. By late Sunday the balance shifted, and 86 had agreed to ratify (one more than the required majority). Mutual stockholders met again, and Yankee's Shepard withdrew his opposition to make the vote unanimous. Proclaimed the victors smoothly: "The opposition was well organized but reached its peak early in the deliberations...
Saturday afternoon will also find the Freshmen out of town. Bill Palson's Yardlings venture to New Haven to encounter an Eli battalion which Ray Shepard, Andover's track coach, termed the best Freshman team he has ever seen. The jumps, longer distances, hammer and javelin throws appear to be the only events the Crimsons have a chance to win. Comparative scores prove Shepard's theory since the Yale men swamped Andover 86-40 while Harvard could only trail the prep school in last week's triangular tilt...