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Paul Theerman, Associate Director, Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health, NYAM, and

Andy Lanset, Director of Archives, NYPR

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Municipal Broadcasting System

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RADIO ROW: ONE THING AND ANOTHER1

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W lives in Medicine," the Talks to Be Carried by ·~"tiona! 1947·4.8 series o! the New Nov. 1. York Academy o! Medl- WNYC-Other Items Tit? ••

c!no "Lectures to the Laity" agalll lumbta 1 will bo broadel!tst by \VNYC. The v ...... ,.. ...

opening lectUre Js acheduled for br Thursday, when the speaker will st1 be Le\'\ia L. Stra.u.11J trustee: o! the '' Institute· tor .Advanced Study at eo Princeton and member of the ra Unlted States A.tomle Energy Com- in1 mission. His topic will be ••The Jo Atom in Clvil Life.'" W

All tho lectures &ro acheduleci to a. be heard from 8:30 to 9 :30 P. :hr. tr1

GOOD N'£\\'~: '!'he Ame-rieah Tobacco Company has given u~ ea that .. bUH$-e)·e" cornmerct.al rou- ba tine on the Jack Benny show, ~ete. ve A plug- tha.t ill He-hter a_nd na.t .. in urally milder wlll be substituted, du It WI\~ rep-or;ted.

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ot one program being hea.rd ~;imul- pr taneoualy over tive sta.tiona in the c.a: ume city baa como to light. It Is viJ the recorded hal!·hour known as r& ··The Conce-rt Stace." On Monday ve nighb the pr.ogram is originat<>d in by WQXR a.nd, it:t tum, relayed by the station's frequency modulation outlets on 96.3 and 4.5.9 mega.- el€ cycles. .At the sn.mo time the pro- • :1 gram ie taken. ott the air and re- op

'DOOTORS. WILL GET 11LEOTURES BY RADIO Academy of Medicine Will Begin an 8-Week Series of

· FM Broadcasts Tomorrow

Post-graduate education In manY' fields or medicine wm bo earned to doctors by an FM bro&deast series be&inning tomorrow night through cooperation between the New York Academy of Medicine a.nd tho Municipnl Brondcastlnr System.

·me oronacasts are oesigne<l to carry Information on the lntest and best techniques and advanecs In melllclne to tho fam\ly praclition­

l ers and other doctors who a.ro too tied up by their professional work to spare the lime to attend m«!tcal lectures in per.!on. The eight one· hour lectures will be carried by < • -FM 93.9 meSs) at

I{ADIO AND TV IN · REVIEW New York Academy of Medicine's Series, 'For

Doctors Only,' Presented Over WNYC-FM

By JACK GOULD A.n epochal advance In the <dU·

cational use of radio wa$ made last night at 9 o'clock with the opening of the New York Academy ot Medicine'• series, "For Doctors Only," over the cit)'ts frequency modulation station, WNYC-FM. Although designed pnmartly u a post·grnduate r·efresher course Cor phy•ieio.ns in the metropolitan orca, t.hc Initial program a1so hold interest fo.r the layman, who gained an unusual insight !nlo the medical profession's pain$taking pul'l!uil of progress.

"For Doctors Only" consists of a series of. recordings of lectures which were delivered last season at the academY.. and which are now being put on tne air as an experi­ment in bringing the most up;to­dnte research to the greatest num­

"For Doctors Only" obviously can be a vital faetot· in enabling the medical profession to disseminate information quickly and effeetlve­ly. But the program also may carry a by-product which may not hav~ enterod the minds of its spon­sors but could be of Importance too.

As Dt". Fre)•berg wenl ln~o the details of his study o! the hormone relationship to rheumatic disease, the lay listener could not help but be reminded of the medical · pro· fession'a ualous dotormination to find new menns of aiding health and relieving suffering; Perhaps the private physician up to now has overlooked what could be hL! best advertisement: what he docs that ne••er Is apparent in his oltlce or on a house call. ·

ber of physicians. Judging by last "Let's Arbitrate," the Samuel R. night'~ deJ?ut of the series, that Za.ck program on which labor and obj~clive would seem certain of management arbitrate their differ· achtevement. . enees, made the switch to televi-

The speaker on the ftrst pro-, slon las~ night over WOR.-TV (7 :30 gram was !>t· Rtehard H. Fr~y- o'clock). Its success In the visual uer . Assoctalc Professor of Chn· · · ,

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