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Like slugs from a Tommy gun, the words stuttered out of Chicago's WBBM: "They take this 90-pound pressure hose and shove it up against your spine and . . . keep on giving it to you until you scream bloody murder." A scared kid was describing life at the state training school for boys at St. Charles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Dead End Talk | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...appeared at many professional recitals with orchestras in Chicago, Milwaukee, New York City and Washington, D. C. For 36 weeks he was on a sustaining radio program over Station WBBM in Chicago...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NTSer Plays At Esplanade | 8/20/1943 | See Source »

...WBBM Steinkopf will analyze news for Barbasol (and any other sponsors WBBM digs up). Barbasol pays WBBM, WBBM pays P.A. for Steinkopf's services. P.A. then deducts a "handling charge" (like an agent), gives the balance to Steinkopf, greatly augmenting his regular salary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: AP & Radio | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

Between the lines of a formal announcement, that Alvin J. (for John) Steinkopf, until Pearl Harbor a topnotch Associated Pressman in Europe, had joined radio station WBBM of Chicago as a news analyst, there was last week the story of a new relationship developing between A.P. and radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: AP & Radio | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

Though technically a WBBM employe, precise-voiced, middle-aged Al Steinkopf is paid by Press Association, Inc., A.P.'s money-making subsidiary (A.P. is a nonprofit cooperative), and can be yanked back to A.P. cable desk or overseas duty whenever the terms of his WBBM contract permit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: AP & Radio | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

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