Radio: Morons & Happy Families

The television industry hardly knew, last week, whether to wince or cheer. In a baccalaureate address. Boston University's President Dr. Daniel L. Marsh warned that "if the [television] craze continues with the present level of programs, we are destined to have a nation of morons." But from a suburb of TV-happy Baltimore came cheerier news. A survey made by School Principal Joseph Barlow of Essex, Md. seemed to show that TV has knit families more closely; reduced street accidents to children; improved adolescent behavior; sped up housework by wives eager to get to...

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