People in the News

Moses Annenberg acquired the Daily Racing Form in 1922; it was the start of his racing wire service providing results to bookies and gamblers, which bankrolled his other publishing ventures.

Clarke Fisher Ansley joined Columbia University Press on 1 January 1928 to commence work on the Columbia Encyclopedia, which was published in 1935.

Harold W. Arlin of KDKA Pittsburgh became the first fulltime radio announcer in 1922.

Edwin Howard Armstrong sold his regeneration and superheterodyne radio patents to Westinghouse for $335,000 in 1920. He later develops FM.

William Bird's Paris-based Three Mountains Press published its first book—Ezra Pound's Indiscretions—in 1923.

Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, prominent minister and syndicated columnist, began a weekly religious program for NBC in 1928.

The Cohn brothers—Jack and...

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