As a director of Muzak Corp., ex-Adman William Burnett Benton found that there was a market for canned music, free of advertising plugs, piped directly into clubs, hospitals, restaurants, factories. Bill Benton decided to apply the same system to radio. He lined up big-name sponsors for such a project, including his old partner, Chester Bowles, now OPA boss; the University of Chicago's Robert M. Hutchins; Businessman Beardsley Ruml. He laid his plan before the Federal Communications Commission (retiring FCC Chairman James L. Fly is expected to join the group). This week the...
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