Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mary Margaret McBride, WOR as Martha Deane. In her dual role she made somewhere between $50,000 and $100,000 a year. Now she functions only for CBS, and a new Martha Deane has taken over her spot on WOR. Her five-a-week, 15-minute show is strictly ad...
Belligerent Canada has passed a conscription act, but compared to that of the United States, it reads like an excursion ad. Providing for only 30 days of training for each conscript, it calls for about 30,000 men per month, and aims at a maximum of 300,000 trained men. The Conservative Party scoffs at the shortness of the training period, and would extend it to four months! But the Army feels that the present lack of equipment makes this impractical...
...peace I have labored; and it is for peace I shall labor all the days of my life." But most of the speech was on domestic issues, and here the old campaigner really went to town. He was sarcastic, sly, arch, tough, ironic, intimate, confidential. He ad libbed, he laughed, rolled his head sidewise, lifted his eyes in mock horror. The audience ate it up. Newsman Ted Alford, of the anti-Roosevelt Kansas City Star, said: "He's all the Barrymores rolled into...
...understand a classic. Last spring he and Columbia Broadcasting System's Adult Education Board decided to try to explain the world's great books to the U. S. radio audience. In a program called Invitation to Learning, each week three literary critics held a half-hour ad lib discussion of a classic before a microphone. Among their topics: The U. S. Constitution, Plato's Republic, Flaubert's Madame Bovary...
Said the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Pete Brandt: "It's a pretty good ad...