Time was when any citizen who got tired of his radio could turn the thing off. But last week time was running out. A floodtide of sound-that-can't-be-turned-off was rising across the U.S.
In Washington, St. Louis, Cincinnati and a dozen other cities, buses and streetcars have been wired for sound. (Moaned a Washington bus rider: "Wasn't it Hitler who tried to drive the Austrian chancellor crazy by forcing him to listen to the radio?") In many places, including Philadelphia, Chicago, Pittsburgh and southern New England, grocery stores were blaring music and commercials. (Stanley Joseloff, president of Storecast Corp. of America, said happily:...
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