100,000 Requests for a Talk

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19024, 26 May 1936, Page 11

100,000 Requests for a Talk

I ETTERS continue to arrive at the headquarters of the National Broadcasting Company and Columbia Broadcasting System of America on the subject of’the death and funeral of His late Majesty, King George V. Impressive proof of the extent of the American radio audiences, which heard the various, news broadcasts and subsequent commentaries dealing with these events, is furnished by the fact that more than 100,000 requests have been received for copies of tlie talk which Mr. Boake Carter, a Columbia commentator, made on the evening of January 21. Requests from members of the Canadian Parliament account for 10,000 of these copies, but many thousands were in the form of individual letters thanking Mr. Carter for his tallc.

Enclosures were numerous. Several British World War veterans sent buttons from their service uniforms; there were many jubilee postage stamps. Money was enclosed in a number of cases, without the purpose of the enclosure being very definitely indicated, and in these instances a charity was made the beneficiary. There was a sprig of heather in one letter, while another came from His late Majesty’s former organist at Sandringham, who is now living in the United States.