Word: wor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Alfred Justin McCosker, 72, cofounder and onetime (1934-47) board chairman of the Mutual Broadcasting System, a director in radio's early days (of Newark station WOR) who introduced bedtime stories, setting-up exercises, Hollywood gossip-coaxed Charlie Chaplin to his first radio performance; of a heart attack; in Miami...
...keeping advertisers in their place between such long stretches of lush instrumentals, WPAT's President Dickens J. Wright, 44, has wooed so many listeners that he has drawn both advertisers and imitators. Newark's WAAT will start similar programming this week; New York's WOR shows the influence in a daily show, and last week Wright considered suing a California station for taking over WPAT's evening program title, Gaslight Revue, without permission. But he also encourages imitation. Says Wright: "We are in contact with 30 stations in the U.S. and Canada who are interested...
There is an interchange at Sturbridge for Route 15 to Hartford, New Haven, and New York City, which avoids the dangerous and often congested Wor-cester Bypass. The travelling time to the interchange is 45 to 50 minutes...
...Thanksgiving Day, van der Linde complained, MBS's Manhattan station WOR managed to cram 26 commercials into 65 minutes-one every 2% minutes. In a single hour on WOR. listeners were being told they must get Mericin, Susta-min 2-12, Mentholatum, Myopone, Anacin and InfraRub-all, like van der Linde's own Dolcin, supposed to relieve pain...
Delaware: Ike is favored, with Democrats wor ried about an urban Negro shift to Republicans...