The staid (but never slow) New York Times last week bought a radio station. Sold for an undisclosed amount was Manhattan's WQXR (TIME, Nov. 17, 1941), famed for its steady stream of good music. Aside from the obvious reason that a newspaper buys a radio station to disseminate news and keep its name before the public, one reason why the Times bought it probably had to do with a man named Hogan.
Paunchy, bespectacled John Vincent Lawless Hogan was a radio engineer long before the U.S. public thought of radio. For over ten years...
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