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Vhis is the team which will report and interpret election night
newt for the Columbia Broadcasting System. Poised for their all
night vigil at the microphone as returns pour into the CBS election
service "nerve center" in New York are: Elmer Davis, who will an
alyze tre presidential race as it enters the home stretch; Bob Trout,
who will give up to the second tallies; and Albert Warner, Wash
ington correspondent, who will interpret senatorial, congressional
and gubernatorial contests.
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at prairie painter show
Professors Dwight Kirsch and
Katherine Faulkner of the art de
partment have been invited to be
come members of the Prairie Wa
ter Color Painters and each has
two water colors in the annual ex
hibit of the organization now
showing in Manhattan, Kas.
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Prof. A. A. Luebs, chairman
rf the Nebraska section of the
American Society of Mechanical
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Engineers, attended the regional
conference of the society of Mil
waukee recently. Questions of so
ciety activities, student organiza
tions, publications, employment,
and national meeting of the or
ganization in New York in De
cember. Brown university's swimmers
have won the New England In
tercollegiate meet for eight con
secutive years.
WSUI, radio station of the State
University of Iowa, is on the air
2,496 hours per year.
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To keep its audience abreast of
the preferences of the nation's 60
million voters when they go to the
polls next Tuesday, the, Columbia
Broadcasting System and its local
outlets, KFAB and KFOR, have
set up a system of election news
coverage on an unprecented scale.
A far cry from the equipment
of the skelton staff, which brought
the first radio election returns
less than 25 years ago is the setup
to be used by the network's elec
tion service in New York City.
These workers, pictured above,
will marshal the vote tallies as
they pour in from similar local
station staffs in all parts of the
country so that listeners will have
prompt and acciyate returns.
Analysts.
To helD Bob Trout give the
numerical returns, Elmer Davis
give his interpretation of the re
turns; Albert Warner, give the Is
sues and results of the state sena
torial, congressional, and guberna
torial races; and Dr. Elmo Roper,
director of the Fortune survey ex
amine the results from the view
points of the national polls, CBS
has installed ten special long-dis
tance telephone circuits, six pri
vate connections with distant
points, four special Morse wires
and nine AP, UP and INS print
ers. Paul W. White. CBS director
of public affairs, will be in charge
of the coverage.
All reports will be cleared thru
a streamlined copy desk, where
editors, connected by phone de
vices will give the returns to tab
ulators, equipped with head and
best phone sets and stationed at
giant white tally board. This, board
is erected on a platform within
easy view of the entire room. Re-
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turns will be written on the board,
scored by states, and kept up to
the second.
To bring all new angles.
Other copy and new information
on "running stories" based on
latest available information pour
ing into the room from innumer
able sources, are to be double
checked and forwarded to the spe
cial broadcasting platform in the
center of the studio.
Numerous remote pickup points
have been scheduled thruout the
day and night, according; to White
who said that special lines are to
hook up the network with the
busy scenes in both democratic
and republican nntional committee
headquarters in New York City,
the crowd-packed Times square,
Hyde Park, New York, and Kush
viile, Indiana-or wherever the
presidential contest rivals spend
election day evening.
Many other special features are
being arranged to further high
light Columbia's election coverage.
A search is being instituted for
the oldest voter in the nation as
well as the youngest citizen to en
ter a polling booth. Early in the
evening, White will be heard as
he speaks to several remote points,
checking over last minute ar
rangements for bringing the re
sults to the central broadcast
point.
Early returns.
In these 15 minutes, beginning
at 5;15 p. m., besides the two-
way conversations, listeners will
hear early scattered returns from
the few states where results are
released pror to the actual poll
closing time. Trout, Davis and
Warner also Hre to be heard in
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preliminary talks to the network
audience.
From then on thruout the
night five minute spots will keep
the election news flowing to the
nation and, as direct reports, bul
letins and flashes hit their peak,
regularly scheduled programs will
be cancelled in their entirety to
make way for the election results.
This will continue until the final
outcome is known.
The entire staff of Columbia s
two international short-wave sta
tions-WCBX and WCAB-is to
be on duty constantly to give lis
teners in every part of the woria
full reports on the elections,
broadcasting in seven languages.
Russell publishes
psychology papers
Dr. R. W. Russell, instructor in
psychology and assistant in the
bureau of instructional research,
recently completed the fourth of
a series of five papers published
in the "Journal oi Gr.etic Psy
chology." The series covers the results of
one of the first complete studies
of the development of ideas in
children, Russell explained. Diver
sified groups of children in both
the Fast and the Southwest were
studied under the same economic
and environmental conditions."
An extensive study of the Zunl
Indian children was the subject of
still another paper of Dr. Russell's
published recently in "Child De
velopment," a publication of the
society of psychological research.
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