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...experiment: When Governor Herbert Lehman spoke from Albany over Station WOR (Newark), Announcer Richard Brooks stood by, slipped murmured interpolations into the microphone. As though the Governor were talking some foreign language the listeners could not understand. Announcer Brooks used intervals of applause to repeat and interpret sections of the speech. Not only did he report a sip of water the speaker took, but he also declared repeatedly that his candidate had scored heavily on Republican Opponent Thomas E. Dewey. Listeners capable of understanding the speech without translation protested. Others kicked about the announcer's editorializing. The Brooks murmuring...
...problem: Does a candidate who takes the customary air time of a popular program draw to himself the attention or the hostility of the program's audience? Candidate Dewey* last week bought on Station WJZ (Manhattan) 30 minutes of Tuesday evening time, half of which usually goes to the Information Please program. Although he was still talking when his time was up, WJZ cut him off to pick up the second half of Information Please, on which Harpo Marx was a noisily silent guest juror,† By telephone Information Please fans berated NBC for giving part of the program...
Dewey fans slated the station for not letting their candidate finish. The telephone score: For Information Please, 920. For Dewey...
Iowa made this discovery accidentally. In 1917 a Mrs. Cora Bussey Hillis, whose own children had died and who argued that the State should pay as much attention to the welfare of children as of hogs, got the State Legislature to establish a Child Welfare Research Station at the university...
Supported by State appropriations and $1,000,000 from the Laura Spellman Rockefeller Fund, this station followed the development of Iowa City children from birth. In its nursery school, the station found that children's I. Q.s rose as much as 20 points. This was unexpected, as it had always been supposed that an individual's I. Q., which measures not knowledge or acquired skills but ability to learn, represented his native intelligence and remained constant...