Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...number of odd noises passed for entertainment. In Chicago, the Warblers-a troupe of 15 canaries, including a bass singer-were practicing trills and twitters in anticipation of a new Mutual show which will celebrate the canaries' 20th consecutive year on the air. In Portland, Ore., 250 sticky youngsters filled the air with gooey snaps and pops-and splattered the microphone-at the first broadcast of a bubble-gum contest...
...Everybody Listening? (MARCH OF TIME; 20th Century-Fox) gives U.S. radio a once-over-lightly treatment with a sharp critical razor. The film achieves a telling effect by letting radio speak for itself-on the theory that there is enough rope lying around any broadcasting studio to hang most of the people responsible for radio. A good deal is accomplished, too, by the unemphatic statement of some familiar but appalling statistics: the suds of soap opera drown out 48% of daylight broadcasting time, and some 20 million U.S. housewives love that suds...
...Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (20th Century...
...Miracle on 34th Street (20th Century...
That had always been the Western idea: everybody had a right to speak his piece, and anybody had the right to be wrong. Unfortunately, behind the grand Miltonian facade, scalawags could and did bore from within. Last week a 20th Century philosopher tried to get at the termites without tearing down the house of freedom. As a member of the Hutchins Commission on Freedom of the Press,* William Ernest Hocking, professor emeritus at Harvard, had thoughtfully poked around the structure for three years. In Freedom of the Press (University of Chicago Press; $3), he took some bold steps beyond John...