TRANSISTOR RADIOS

Press, Volume C, Issue 29599, 23 August 1961, Page 6

TRANSISTOR RADIOS

Action By May Supported (Special Crspdt N.Z.P.A.) LONDON, August 21. P. B. H. May's request to spectators at the test match to switch off transistor radios because they were worrying the players has been followed by letters to several newspapers from correspondents applauding his action and deploring the growing use in public of what one of them calls “this midget enemy of thought, conversation, and human peace.” One correspondent found a man using a transistor set next to him at Lord’s. He spent the afternoon listening to a racing commentary. Another at a Festival Hall matinee had a neighbour who tuned in a couple of times to test scores.

A “Daily Herald” writer, commenting on the ill effects of transistor radios, says: “The only hope for peace is a law that transistors must not be played in public ex. cept through earphones. “The objection to earphones, a radio salesman tells me, is that when you are eating you can’t hear the music for the champing of your jaws. This must be a great hardship to some folk who seem never to stop chewing and listening.”