Radio Round the World

Radio Record, 7 August 1936, Page 16

Radio Round the World

NOTHER "dead spot" has been reported, this time in Hgypt, by the pilot of an aeroplane flying between Cairo and Khartoum recently. ‘The exact situation is above the Kings’ Tombs, where the famous Tutankhamen’s tomb is situated. Quite a number of these dead spots have been discovered recently, and it is

supposed that they are caused by electromagnetic spaces produced by electrified sand, TO one has heard of Amos ‘n’ Andy for about a year or so; about two years ago they about summed up our impression of American broadcasting. It seems they are still on the air; on March 19 of this year they gave their 2286th episode, and celebrated their

eighth year of broadcasting. Freeman FI, Gosden and Charles J. Correll, they began as "Jim and Charley, two lifelong buddies, from Dixie, have spent most of their life on a farm just outside of Atlanta... ." (specimen from the introduction to their ,first broadcast), they soon changed to Amos ’n’ Andy ; and since then have run a freshair taxicab company, a realty business and a grocery store.