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...highest Hooper ratings in this area. But because WBMS has to be self-sufficient, it ran more and more advertisements, which steadily lowered its rating to the point where the station was running at a huge loss. When WBMS made the shift to disk jockey programs, the wail set up by Bostonians was enough to prove the popularity of an all-music station. Former assistant manager John R. Thornton has taken advantage of this to set up a new station, WXHR on the FM band, using the WBMS fiasco as a guide...
When Harry Truman zeroed in on the Marine Corps and its "propaganda machine" last fall (TIME, Sept. 18), everyone in Seattle expected ex-Marine Joseph P. Adams to let loose an earsplitting wail. Joe, as regional head of the Marine Corps Reserve Officers Association and onetime (1947-49) state Director of Aeronautics, was himself a prime, uninhibited propagandist. But Joe just gulped, for he was also a Democrat, and went on quietly politicking for Truman...
When a jet plane passes overhead, most people hear an earsplitting, nerve-jangling wail. But it may be only "an audible illusion," says General Electric Co. After measuring both with decibel tests, G.E. announced last week that the air-to-ground noise of a jet engine is actually about the same as or even less than that from a piston-driven plane of equal horsepower. A jet just seems louder because it travels faster and its noise strikes the ear more abruptly. Also, said G.E., the shriek of a jet is a comparatively new sound and thus attracts more attention...
...ballads with a Fitzgerald edge, a few bopped-up old favorites, her latest raid on Mother Goose (a scat version of Old Mother Hubbard), and a couple of friendly imitations of her old pals Louis Armstrong and Rose ("Chichi") Murphy. As always, her gently rasping voice, halfway between jungle wail and jukebox jangle, brought the house down...
Judy's ever-restless hands stopped waving. "It's a damn lie," she screamed. Little Archie was on his feet yelling his objections. From the courtroom, the voice of Judy's mother rose in a piercing wail. Judge Albert Reeves threatened to have Mrs. Rebecca Coplon removed and warned her to keep quiet. Kelley's flat voice persisted. Didn't Judy also spend the night of Jan. 8 with Shapiro in Philadelphia? Didn't she spend New Year's Eve with Shapiro "in fornication in an apartment of a friend...