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Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 31, 8 February 1935, Page 22

HE latest bit of "crankiness" in the ‘ broadcasting world may be claimed for Japan. There is reported to be an actor.in Tokio who has a collection of clocks, all of which keep the exact time to a split second. Every day this actor listens-in to the noon "chime" sounded over the air from Tokio, and practically every day the announcer is a, second. or two off his stroke with the gong, Within the minute he gets a ring on the telephone from the pedantic actor to remind him that he: has made a misstatement in saying that. he sounds noon on the gong. It-is feared that the continual corrections may dead to a, duel.