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...both considering WLIB offers...
...Brooklyn's 1,000-watt, daytime station WLIB, which she had picked up "to supplement the Post," and had ignored until last year, when the station lost over $100,000. Last week she dropped everything and rushed to her baby's side; until WLIB was showing a profit, she would be general manager, full time...
...assets had already given her a running start. In recent weeks she had: 1) applied for 10,000 watts and a 24-hour broadcast day; 2) bought an empty church in downtown Manhattan to give WLIB much-needed Manhattan office and studio space ("You can't get people to go to Brooklyn just for a broadcast"). Program deals already on the fire...
Foremost of the local stations carrying the broadcast is the Herald-Traveler's WHDH, operating at 850 kilocycles. In the New York City area, WLIB in Brooklyn will feature the game, according to William J. Bingham '16, director of Physical Education and Athletics. New Haven's WNHC and the Yale Network will keep stay-at-home Bulldog enthusiasts well-informed of the struggle with a play-by-play description of this latest in a venerable series of Harvard-Yale football battles...
After that, Dolly Thackrey reached out. She snapped up some of the Chicago Daily News's once famed foreign staff, expanded the Post's foreign coverage and started a syndicate. She bought Brooklyn's tiny radio station WLIB and the Bronx Home News, a neighborhood paper that concentrates on marriages and bingo parties. She tried and failed to buy the San Francisco Chronicle, then as a consolation prize bought two radio stations, Los Angeles' KMTR and San Francisco's KYA (FCC approval of the purchases is pending...