One day last week suave, hard-driving Lewis Allen Weiss, vice president and general manager of the 31-station Don Lee Broadcasting System network on the Pacific Coast, sat in his Los Angeles office listening to Adolf Hitler address the Reichstag (accompanied by a running translation into English). An ex-cavalryman, Vice President Weiss soon began to get sore at Hitler. Presently, after chewing a fat cigar to tatters, he remarked to his assistants: "This is the damndest program I've ever heard. This guy Hitler is a slicker." Thereupon, he popped into his secretary's office, dictated a two-sentence statement, stomped down a corridor to...
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