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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in unused condition. Book like new. Box has a split. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> It has become habit for me to scan rather than read manuscripts. After five decades in the craft, I instinctively judge a work by its heft, paragraphing and punctuation. Not so with Welcome South, Brother, the history of WSB, Atlanta. It's a fascinating account of this pioneer station and its parent company, Cox Broadcasting Corporation. WSB became the South's first radio station in 1922-just two years after KDKA, Pittsburgh, had been given the first "regular" (as op- posed to experimental) call letters. It was licensed to the distinguished Atlanta Journal, which beat its competitor, the Constitution, to the radio punch. That was in the days when radio receivers, called consoles, sold for up to $700; when news- papers promoted "kits" to coax readers to make their own cat's whiskers, oatmeal box, earphone receivers. Only the carriage trade could afford the Kolsters or the gooseneck-speaker Atwater Kents of that era. I recall that, in 1926, when I began writing a syndicated radio colum.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 112 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, color portraits ; 29 cm ; 1974. OCLC 1255439882 LCCN 73-86252 ; red textured board with designs and letting in gold, in similarly illustrated slip case ; Complimentary card from WSB laid in ; name on front endpaper ; Contents: A giant is born -- A matter of maturing -- WSB in war and peace -- The eyes of the South open -- Rivalry and revitalization -- Service in an explosive decade -- Service, celebration and seers -- WSB/CBC honor roll ; cartoon illustrations by Bill Daniels ; photos feature The Peachtree Mandoliers, Byron Warner (later director of the UGA Mens Glee Club) and the 7 Aces Orchestra, Lambdin Kay "The Little Colonel:, Radio Owls, James Cox, Elmo Ellis, Don Elliot Heald, Rudolf Valentino, Alma Gluck, Ephram Zimbalist, Henry Ford, Biltmore Hotel, Fred Waring, Amos n Andy, Charlie McCarthy Edgar Bergen, Harry Truman, James and Martha Carson, Peachtree Cowboys (Jimmy Smith, Boby and Mac Atcheson, Ivey Peterson, Marvin Wilson), Gene Talmadge, The Woody WIllow Show, Dick Van Dyke, Danny Kaye, Don Kennedy, The Popeye Club, Lyndon Johnson, John Kennedy, Hogan's Heroes, Bob Hope, Jim Howard, Lois Poag, Johnny Beckman, Raymond Burr, Barbara Anderson, Don Mitchell, Don Gallaway, Ivan Allen, John Daly, "Willard", Hank Aaron, Richard Russell, Harry Belafonte, Richard Nixon ; FINE/FINE. Book.