Radio: Radio Rides Again

"Radio?" asked Bandleader Xavier Cugat last week on TV's Cavalcade of Bands. "What's that?" The next day he learned. Indignant Bernice Judis, general manager of Manhattan's music and news radio station WNEW, issued a blast against all jokesters who make merry at radio's expense, and announced that she saw no reason why she should continue to "build up and support their careers." Then she ordered WNEW to stop playing the records of Xavier Cugat and any other artists "who publicly depreciate the medium of radio."

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