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When Their Majesties arrived in the U. S., so that a cataract might be lifted from King Prajadhipok's left eye, Siamese recalled that the first ancient Oriental power which deigned to sign a treaty with the upstart U. S. was the Government of Siam. Traditionally the Siamese Royal Family have employed U. S. experts from choice, and Siam once had a high official called the Second King whose real name, Siamese insisted, was "Prince George Washington...
Kaufmann's store, which upset the Pittsburgh radio applecart, buys its news from an upstart independent outfit named Transradio Press Service (TIME, Oct. 29). Last week Transradio celebrated its first birthday by announcing new customers in Newark, N. J., Louisville, Ky., Richmond, Va., and, most important, its first "national" sponsor, Continental Baking Co.'s "Wonder Bread." The Wonder Bread news programs begin this week in Detroit, Columbus, Akron, Dayton, Toledo...
Into that scene last autumn buzzed a gadfly named Transradio Press Service, an upstart newsgathering organization in the business of serving independent radio stations which preferred not to be bound by the truce (TIME, Oct. 29). In Pittsburgh Transradio found such a station in WJAS, which is locally owned but hooked into the Columbia network. WJAS found a potent sponsor in Kaufmann's department store, biggest, most progressive retail business in Pittsburgh. On New Year's Day, WJAS inaugurated two daily 15-min. news broadcasts, supplied by Transradio and paid for, $1,000 a week, by Kaufmann...
Into court at Cologne last week was dragged one of the original Coblenz Nazis, strong-minded, sharp-tongued Frau Lily Schultz. It appeared that this 40-year-old boardinghouse keeper had loudly disparaged Cologne's District Storm Troop Leader as "a young upstart!" Promptly convicted, Original Nazi Lily was sentenced to eight months in jail...
...week's Exposition was not these prizes, not the new Temple, not the fact that Edward of Wales's Alberta herd of Shorthorns was better than usual, not the celebration of Walter Biggar's 10th anniversary as judge of the grand champion steer but the fact that a comparative upstart breed of beef cattle had reached a stock show eminence never before attained...