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We the undersigned members of the editorial staff of the San Antonio Evening News, vote a great big unqualified "Yes" to the question if TIME'S weekly news broadcast should be continued.
Your timely TIME radiocasts are paralleled only by the excellence of the magazine itself.
S. TOPPERWEIN OSCAR OWENS
F. BLUBES C. F. HUNT
J. C. OSEIN HAROLD YOUNG
EDWARD B. COPE RAY NEUMANN BEN BAINES WM. F. SALATHE
A. W. WALLISER
San Antonio News San Antonio, Texas
Petitions also from clubs, hotel managements and guests, schools, business firms, hospital staffs and patients, apartment house tenants, etc.—ED.
Friend Lost
Sirs:
It's my favorite feature on the air and I look forward to it as it's my main outlet to the important news of the world. If you take ''The March of Time" off the air you lose a friend to TIME.
JOHN H. MALONE
Sparland, Illinois
Truly Damned
Sirs:
One of Pittsburgh's daily newspapers carried the item, with great regret, that you were leaving the air. I am terribly disappointed. You know that radio has often been branded as a moron's source of entertainment, and in the majority of instances this would seem to be the case. Perhaps your withdrawal has been influenced by this thought. But, when sponsors such as you leave the air, the radio can then be truly damned for all its moronic worth.
Your program is an intelligent effort to distribute news, and give one the real feeling of its portent. Anyone can get up and read news dispatches; there are many of these on the air. . . . But, to have news happenings re-enacted: with all their life; giving the listener a physical feeling of living with the news—that is something. . . . You have grouped a body of men and women who have given your program the excellence which it deserves.
GEORGE WUCHINICH
Pittsburgh, Pa.
The Pittsburgh Press news item: "Sad, sad news. The March of Time quits marching next month. To the everlasting credit of the sponsor, it should be noted here that the March of Time was perhaps the finest dramatic presentation ever on the air."—ED.
Art v. Blatancy
Sirs:
You MUST NOT take "The March of Time" off the air! It is by far the most original program on the air: the first real radio art,—and as advertising, how far removed from the uncouth blatancy of most radio advertising.
KENNETH B. WEBB
Hightstown, N. J.
Fireside
Sirs:
Keep "The March of Time" on the air; it is the outstanding feature of interesting and informative radio entertainment: it puts life into the news and brings the news of the world direct to the fireside of the home.
JOHN M. LA RUE
Cincinnati, Ohio
Ringside
Sirs:
"The March of Time" has been the most stimulating and distinctive feature on the air, virtually a ringside seat at history in the making.
Yes, by all means, reconsider your decision.
WM. A. KROENER
Oakdale, Illinois
TIME'S managers have done little else for the past fortnight.—ED.
U. S. Navy
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