RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

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studios at the universities, for the salaries of
staff, including a director, a publicity director,
an office manager, and secretaries, and for technical
and engineering service. The
council has
the services of specially qualified writers and
other persons with broadcasting experience, and
provides this staff with technical facilities such
as have seldom been available for programs of an
educational or cultural nature.
This experimental work of the council affords
an opportunity for promoting the development
of broadcasting in the public interest in a
situation where the pooling of regional resources
may be expected to result in the more effective
use of the radio for cultural and educational purposes.
One of the better known features now on
national broadcast is the University of Chicago
Round Table, providing for extemporaneous discussion
of current affairs in the fields of politics,
economics, and government. The three participants
in these weekly round table talks are usually
drawn from the faculty of the University of
Chicago. Other features are a dramatic treatment
of every-day legal questions; "Book Talks,"
a series of extemporaneous book reviews presented
by an outstanding authority on American
literature; and "Titans of Science," a series of
biographical sketches of great scientists.
The
grant to the council also provides for
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