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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hoelzle Housing Committee was appointed with a judge as its chairman. Staff members of a local radio station and a local newspaper became self-appointed "expediters." Benefit dances and basketball games were held. The committee's zeal was unbounded; they got a lot in a fine residential section and built a $22,000 house with an elevator shaft, ramps for Bob Hoelzle's wheelchair, and special bathroom fixtures...
Every comely stenographer on the Navy's Quonset Point Air Station near Providence had been acting a little skittish lately. The reason was the big, annual all-station ball for the base's 3,900 sailors and civilian personnel. This year, the big feature was the election of "Miss Quonset Point." The triumphant queen was to be crowned at the ball; the commandant would escort her in the grand march. Everyone who bought a ticket got a vote, and sales were brisk...
...half years ago, Station WBMS was organized by the Templeton Radio Manufacturing Company to bring good music throughout the day to what was considered an exceptionally music-conscious radio audience. Since that time, the story of Boston's Music Station has been one of a pioneer yielding to economic pressure...
...until last summer, when WBMS changed management, its history was written in red ink. The first year and a half had been glorious--from the listener's point of view. The station played good music, and lots of it. There were hour-long programs of symphonic works, virtually free of commercials. Best known, and probably best like of these programs was the Endowment Series which lasted a full three hours, uninterrupted except for brief program notes. The Endowment Series made possible the playing of exceptionally long works, such as Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and the Brahms Requiem. And except...
...present economic condition, WBMS can do little to change its commercial policy. It must take what it can get. WQXR, a similar station in New York, does broadcast better commercials in smaller numbers; but WQXR has a potential listening audience three times that of WBMS, and in addition is partially subsidized by the New York Times. Taking its condition into account, however, WBMS could still make some improvement. A sizable portion of "The World's Most Beautiful Music" is short enough to conform to the dictates of radio business policy. Not many Mozart or Haydn symphonies, for example, are over...