Radio: Hello, Yingva

A significant and pregnant fact was clear last week to U.S. Senators and Congressmen : almost all of those who had regularly used the Congressional radio rooms to keep in touch with their constituents had also been re-elected in 1942.

The radio rooms are the brain child of wizened old Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, who is a past master of the science of getting reelected, and of a Washington recording engineer named Robert J. Coar. In 1936 they hit on the idea of recording personal messages to Capper's electorate and shipping them to...

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