Frank Dresser wrote:

"starman" wrote in message
...
"When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did
a
little school survey asking children which they preferred and why -
television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he
preferred radio because the pictures were better."

Alistair Cooke- BBC radio
'Letter from America'



Stan Freiberg likes that story, too. Now I'm trying to picture Fred
Allen passing himself off as a 7 year old.

I don't want to imply imagination is a universal attribute of radio
listeners. Consider the small subset who consider the entertaining
radio talk show blowhards to be some kind of great modern philosophers.
Sheesh. Better to learn physics from Warner Brothers cartoons.

Wiley Coyote has always been on the forefront of physics.


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