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There are exceptions. Some stations merely hired "disk-jockeys" to ride herd on swing records, in the traditional milkman's matinee style. WJZ, New York, evolved a six-hour, all-musical program in which every word except the news flashes is sung. A chorus, jam band and harpsichord render the station breaks in such senseless jingles as this...
Vocational schools, many of them already on a year-round, 24-hour basis, are planning summer sessions, often with four daily six-hour shifts. Although "regular" high schools anticipate no great summer expansion, most are enrolling boys & girls for farm and factory work. The U.S. Office of Education Wartime Commission has asked the schools to offer training courses "tailored to the needs of the armed forces and of war production," recommending, as vacation jobs, programs for salvage and conservation, war-bond sales, defense information, nursery schools, community entertainment for service men, housing, canning. News of the nation's high...
Every August newspapermen are invited to Detroit for a preview of Chrysler's new models (see p. 57). This year the preview was mostly tanks, bomber fuselages, anti-aircraft guns, Army trucks. When, at the end of a six-hour tour of defense production, a Chrysler official sarcastically suggested that the newspapermen might also want to see the new cars, a wag said: "Yeah, we might as well have a look at the by-product...
...streams that wound beside the road, against the dark and light greens of the north country foliage, the President looked over the 94,000 officers and men of the First Army of the U. S. The Army paid no mind to his request about saluting. Eight times in the six-hour ride through St. Lawrence County's rolling country the long Presidential motorcade pulled up in front of stiffly assembled Army divisions. Eight times the President heard the 21-gun salute followed by ruffles and flourishes; eight times he sat at attention for the national anthem while Old Glory...
...Magic Music's headquarters in the Penobscot Building, studio operators, working six-hour tricks with telephone-girl's headsets, paraded back & forth before long rows of phonograph turntables, each supplying a different bar or nightclub. As patrons dropped their nickels into the slot and phoned their requests, the operators consulted their elaborately cross-indexed files, picked the disc from among 8,000 titles, played it back to the club the request came from. To music-hungry Detroiters, the climax of the evening came when they discovered they could have their requests played not only in their...