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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Damage to Harvard properties extended beyond Cambridge as reckonings of hurricane losses were made yesterday. Hardest hit was the Arnold, Arboretum in Jamiaca Plain where several hundred valueable trees were destroyed. The top of the Blue Hill, location of the Meteorological Station, suffered much property damage. To word came through from isolated Petersham or Squam Lake, New Hampshire, homes of the Harvard Forest and Engineering Camps, respectively, but it was feared much damage had occured...
Last week when Special Events Director Henry Dupré put on one of his daily street broadcasts for station WWL (New Orleans), he chose from the crowd Bartender John Barry, interviewed him at the microphone. Barkeep Barry answered the questions, signed off with an unsolicited query of his own. Said he: "I want to ask Marie Vicknair up in Reserve, La. if she will marry me. I didn't have the nerve to ask her face to face." At week's end Miss Vicknair told station WWL and bashful Barman Barry that she would give them an answer...
...Network radio had had several unsuccessful efforts to build a fourth national chain to compete with NBC's Red and Blue, CBS, when in 1934 an advertiser who wanted to reach New York and Chicago listeners, but did not want to pay the cost of network broadcasting, approached stations WOR (Newark) and WGN (Chicago) to make a deal. The sponsor wanted to put on a show to be aired over the two stations. The show originated in Newark and he proposed to pay each station its standard time rate, but asked the stations to pay the wire charges...
...Chicago Tribune's WGN gave the network its president, Wilbert E. Macfarlane. Thirty years a newspaperman, President Macfarlane is a rugged individualist of broadcasting. As advertising manager of the Tribune in 1927, he became WGN's executive head, refused to let networks dominate his station's policies. The other original partner station, WOR, gave MBS its board chairman, Alfred Justin McCosker. Breezy, back-slapping Chairman McCosker is a radio veteran among network heads. He joined WOR in 1923, became the station's director and general manager in 1926, president in 1933. A onetime newspaperman, Chairman McCosker...
...longer in favor of any summer holidays for any sponsors. But President William Samuel Paley was once a sponsor himself, became interested in radio when he used it to boost sales of the La Palina cigars his father manufactured. In 1928 he bought himself CBS, built up its station membership until he now controls some 1,600 air hours a day. He sells a goodly slice of these 1,600 hours, but has by no means all for sale. Deductions must be made for: 1) Time differences across the continent. 2) Time given to sustaining programs like the New York...