Radio: Trend

With full-page ads in the press, Manhattan's WNEW last week came out with a line of balm for the nerves of war.

Announced WNEW: "It is the duty of your newspaper to give you the news . . . all the news . . .

however terrible its import.

"It is the duty of your magazines . . .

with more time at their command ... to analyze and interpret.

"But the "duty of your radio station—as we of WNEW see it—is different. That duty is to provide escape. . . ."

> Philadelphia's WFIL concurrently announced that it was returning to the air Peaceful Valley,...

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