BROADCASTS FROM SHANGRI-LA FOIL WOULD-BE RADIO JAMMERS

When the Crimson Network started its Prize Show last summer, it never anticipated being jammed off the air by practical jokers who kept the Network's telephone wires tied up in knots, robbing a lonely Radcliffe dweller of a date.

But the ingenuity of the Network had been taxed by harder problems, so now all the calls are made from a place known as Shangri-La. Once it was in Winthrop House, and once in Leverett, but it seems to get around without much trouble, baffling even members of the Network.

Men Want Sex

The Network began the Prize Show when it came to the realization that Harvard men wanted sex in the radio. Early programs starring Ann Corio and other celebrities proved very, successful, but programs just featuring a female voice failed badly.

The problem was solved when Network men realized that their listeners wanted dates, and that they had at their disposal, a way to bring these dates about. Passes to the UT came in handy, so they began putting their idea into action with great success.

The only things Harvard men liked on the Network before the advent of the Prize Show was classical music, but since anyone can dial a phone and recognize unnamed tunes, the fun began in earnest.

Eager students, trying to get in on the gravy, would call the Network before the tunes were played and then stall around, hoping to be able to guess the name. Others called just to have fun.

Calling Radcliffe

The lucky winner was then faced with the problem of getting a date with an unknown girl, without telling about the program. A fast line, for the time was limited, brought a date and two passes for the caller.

Keeping the name of the Radcliffe party a secret until the call was made, kept early jammers from bothering the Network's effort, but as time went on, jammers began getting annoying with their continual calls at the wrong time.

Shangri-La, known also as studio's C.D. and E. has solved the problems for the present, and keeps the Network technicians busy. Compared with the problem of preventing wave radiation and tangling with the FCC, this difficulty was a snap.