Hollywood Star Time and M G M Screen Tests Set for Radio Debut
Western Union reports R Radio Pictures launches Hollywood Star Time on May 29 over 177 Blue network stations from 12 15 to 12 30 Pacific time, weekdays. MGM Screen Tests begin June 12 on Mutual Network at 9 15 Eastern War Time, five days weekly, featuring actual screen tests with a Metro star.
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Radio Pictures
Hollywood Star Time
Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer
Mutual
Metro
Tough crackdown on Sweden over ballbearings wartime flow
U S officials press Sweden to cut shipments of vital ball bearings to Germany. The SKF connection and Sweden’s role in arming Germany are highlighted amid warnings of Nazi aircraft production dependence. The report pairs this with a long courtroom scene at the mass sedition trial led by Chief Justice Edward C. Eicher, noting defense tactics and delays.
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Washington
D. C
Sweden
State Department
Foreign Economic Administration
Eesits
Germany
SKF Ballbearing Company
Philadelphia
William Batt
War Production Board
Schweinfurt
Federal District Court
Edward C. Eicher
Brazer
Justice Eicher
Charles B. Hudson
Omaha
Neb
Eicher
Lois de Lafayette Washburn
Los Angeles
Jones
Elcher
Legacy of Wesley Barry Recalled in Radio Age
An incomplete note recalls Wesley Barry, once a child star and RKO assistant, now tied to a Bere county project. The piece hints at a shift toward closer church radio ties and NBC’s Christian awards granting five minister fellowships within NBC’s network.
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CBS
Wesley Barry
RKO
Bere Cope
Dinakore
Nasional Broadcasting Company
Christian
NBC
Quiet Bowles Boomlet For VP Wilts Connecticut Bid
Friends cultivate a low profile campaign for OPA chief Chester Bowles as vice president. He declined a Connecticut governorship, while Bowles endured an unpopular wartime assignment that has become relatively popular. Mexican workers have earned 42 million dollars in the United States under the emergency government program placing them on U. S. farms and railroads.
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OPA
Chester Bowles
Connecticut
Bowles
Washington
United States
U. S
Relative sport greatness beyond individual stars
The writer argues that sports advance through relative strength rather than single stars. He cites baseball, football, golf and past legends to show that the game endures beyond figures like DiMaggio, Cobb, Ruth, Wagner, and others, stressing that the value of the game outweighs any one player.
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Mr. Einstein
Mike Jacobs
Louis
Conn
Gans
Leonard
Nelson
Greb
Mike
Army
Navy
DiMaggio
Feller
Dickey
Cochrane
Gordon
Keller
Ted Williams
Mize
Wagner
Mathewson
Lajoie
Cy, Young
Rube Waddell
Ty Cobb
Babe Ruth
Tris Speaker
Joe Jackson
Christy Mathewson
Joé DiMaggio
Bill Dickey
Hans Wagner
Frank Frisch
Bob Feller
Jim Thorpe
Bronko Nagurski
Sammy Baugh
Sid Luckman
Pudge Heffelfinger
Chicago Bears
Notre Dame
Cobbs
Ruths
Notre Dames
Bobby Jones
Walter Hagen
Harry Vardon
Relative value of sport and contest over final score
The speaker argues that class is relative and that the thrill of a close contest matters more than winning. He cites Devereaux Milburn on preferring hard scraps and notes that greatness includes time and conditions, not just stars, asserting baseball can shine without its biggest names.
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Devereaux Milburn
Dev
Milburn
Louis
Dempsey
Corbett
Tunney
Grange
Thorpe
Ruth
Cobb
Vardon
Jones
Those Sewell Boys From Alabama Made Their Mark
The Sewell brothers from Alabama rise to prominence with Joseph Wheeler Sewell and Luke Sewell from Titus and Rip Sewell of Decatur. Joe Sewell climbs from the minors to help Cleveland win a World Series and then sets a consecutive games played record during the Gehrig era.
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Sewell
Alabama
Joseph Wheeler Sewell
Luke Sewell
Titus
Ala
Rip Sewell
Decatur
Joe Sewell
Cleveland
Lou Gehrig
Lovers' Leap Rock City views seven-state panorama
A massive flat boulder in Rock City Garden, Chattanooga Tennessee, is named Lovers' Leap. From this huge rock observers claim to see seven states Tennessee Alabama Georgia South Carolina North Carolina Kentucky and Virginia spreading in a broad arc below the vast terrain.
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Rock City Garden
Chattanooga
Tenn
Tennessee
Alabama
Georgia
South Carolina
North Carolina
Kentucky
Virginia
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