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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt's Texas radio career began in 1935. When Hearst Radio, Inc. acquired Station KTSA (San Antonio), it also acquired the vice president in charge of sales, Elliott Roosevelt. Early this year his present wife, the onetime Ruth Googins, bought Station KFJZ (Fort Worth). Elliott has declared emphatically that Mr. & Mrs. Roosevelt's station-buying activities were financed by their own money, are completely independent of his Hearst Radio...
...Texas stations which Broadcaster Roosevelt has now gathered into his network include his wife's KFJZ, Hearst Radio's KNOW (Austin), WACO (Waco). MBS emphasized the business aspects of the affiliation, explained that the Chicago Tribune's anti-New Deal opinions were irrelevant in matters of network operations...
...Manhattan, one hot evening last week, Joe Charlton, 31, and his wife Claire, of San Marcos, Calif., boarded the Comet, night boat to Providence, R. I. Going through Hell Gate Channel in the East River, the purser told them there were no more staterooms. Mr. Charlton demanded the captain turn back. Captain Pendelton demurred. Mr. Charlton took off his hat. coat and shoes. "Come on, Claire," he shouted, jumped overboard, struck out for shore through treacherous currents where many a man has drowned. Impressed, Captain Pendelton ordered the Comet pulled up at North Brother Island, let Mrs. Charlton off, telephoned...
...Hollywood Boulevard, Mrs. Karl Krueger, wife of the conductor of the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra, was confronted by one Charles E. McDonald, estranged husband of her companion and maid. Without much ado, Mr. McDonald shot her three times with an automatic. Mrs. Krueger was removed to a hospital, Charles McDonald to a police station. His explanation: "She broke up my home...
...readers are used to Englishmen's relentless output of travel books about the U. S. But for an American to write a travel book about England is still a novelty. Wife of a Ph.D. (brother of Publisher Richard Simon) who spent a year in England on an exchange professorship, 28-year-old Margaret Halsey has added enough wisecracks to make her novelty also a likely bestseller. Divested of wisecracks, Author Halsey's English impressions are surprisingly charitable - kinder than most English impressions of the U. S., kinder than Peggy Bacon's illustrations, and much kinder than...