Radio: Master Radioman

The wall map was dotted with red, blue and white-crossed blue pins. Each represented a U.S. television, FM, or educational radio station. A short, wiry young man looked at the map, remarked: "A lot has happened in the past five years, and a lot more will happen in the next five." The speaker was Charles Ruthven Denny Jr., 34, whom President Truman named last week as chairman of the seven-man Federal Communications Commission.

Denny, high-strung and high-powered is no novice in the job. He has been acting chairman for the past ten months. He had been a commissioner before that, and FCC...

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