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Kirkland--ss, Zahn; 2b, Stevenson; rf, Higgins; cf, Glynn; c, Gumby; lf, Senay; 1b, Clifton; 3b, Smith, Gilpatrick; p, Bush. Adams--3b, Heath; lf, Stanton; ss, Patton; cf, Sylvester; 1b, McLaughlin; c, Cobern; rf, Wheelwright; 2b, Golger; p, Holt...
...American radio is an unrealized and lackluster medium. "It is a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere," says radio pioneer Lee DeForrest, and columnist Robert C. Ruark contributes these adjectives: "Corny, strident, boresome, florid, repetitive, offensive, moronic, and nauseating." Occasionally big radio wheels like Mr. Stanton or Mr. Paley rise and plunge the dagger in their bressiz by decrying their own low standards. And groups like the FCC and Listeners' Councils are bee-busy trying to urge radio over the 13-year-old level...
...Poland he could remember little but frustration. So that he would be free to speak as a private citizen on Poland's "tragedy," tired Arthur Lane resigned. Last week Harry Truman picked his successor. Warsaw was in for something. The new Ambassador will be 59-year-old Stanton Griffis...
Born in Boston, Stanton Griffis was a prizewinning orator at Cornell. He raised apples for a while in Oregon but gave that up for Wall Street, where he became a banker, a promoter and a tycoon. In 1920 he moved in on Lee Tire & Rubber Co. In 1933, with Atlas Corp.'s Floyd Odium, he acquired control of Madison Square Garden. He helped pull Paramount Pictures out of a $100 million hole, along the way picked up Brentano's book stores...
Many a radioman agreed with FCC, even though the decision was bound to delay color. CBS's Stanton said sadly that CBS could not afford to spend much more cash on color. Black & white would have the field to itself, and RCA would be out ahead. (It now manufactures most of the sets being turned...