Business: Foot Forward

When an industry wants to put its best foot forward, it is likely to hire a man with a knack for public relations. This man the newspapers will refer to as TSAR. Prime examples: the cinema industry's Hays, baseball's Landis.

A few months ago Frank McNinch of the Federal Communications Commission suggested that he might soon start to investigate radio. Last week, as embarrassingly intimate questionnaires on financial matters began to arrive at every radio station in the land, the National Association of Broadcasters picked a man named Mark Foster Ethridge as president....

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