Red & Blue

When affiliates of the new Blue Network Co. (TIME, Jan. 19) met in Chicago last week, FCC's Chairman James Lawrence Fly rose to address them--in great good humor and in a blue suit, blue shirt and bright red necktie. Said he:

"The gentlemen have demanded that I explain to you the meaning of the blue ensemble and red necktie. Well, perhaps that might be taken as reflecting a view as to the relative importance of networks, or it might simply be out of sheer loyalty and affection for the Navy and for Harvard.*

"Or it might be that this blue ensemble has carried the red around its neck long enough."

*Chairman Fly is an alumnus of the Naval Academy ('20) and Harvard Law School ('26).

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