Radio: Gun, Gat & Rod

Many parents retreat from the living room when the children's TV shows come on. A group of-dedicated San Francisco mothers did just the reverse: they cooked their family suppers early, then sat down for four uninterrupted hours of watching TV moppet shows. In Washington last week, the FCC published the results. The outraged mothers saw: 13 murders and assorted killings, 14 sluggings, six kidnapings, five holdups, three explosions, three instances of blackmail and extortion, three thefts, two armed robberies, two cases of arson, one lynching, one torture scene and one miscarriage. One mother...

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