Word: airings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to the "Army and Navy Journal," the Air Force is planning to go even farther. The Air Force's plan, still being studied by Pentagon brass, calls for complete elimination of segregation. All Negro units, including the 332nd Fighter Wing, are to be deactivated, and their rated personnel assigned to other Air Force units all over the world. The non-rated but promising men would be sent to service schools for more training, and the "men of no promise" separated from the Air Force...
...sickroom air hung this week over Chicago's Stevens Hotel as 1,500 radiomen gathered for the annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters. Instead of milling happily in & out of hotel suites for three days with drinks in their hands, the delegates sat glumly and listened to disquieting speeches. An NAB veteran said he had never seen so sober a meeting...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Sidney Howard's Alien Corn, with Bette Davis and Kirk Douglas...
...only principal who seems to enjoy his role, apparently because he really believes in it, is Sir Cedric Hardwicke, as a sniffly, red-nosed King Arthur. The rest of the clanking, top-heavy production has the hollow, dejected air of a joke with its punch line missing...
...slightly lazy and limpid air of a fresh Florida morning, authentic as can be, comes through on the first page of this novel. The rest is not all so authentic, but as a novel about the "race problem" it makes more sense than many more violent pieces of writing...