Word: alcott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Burly, two-fisted, plain-spoken Carroll Duard Alcott, 42, started it. Before he joined Cincinnati's WLW at Pearl Harbor time, Alcott was renowned throughout the Far East for his spade-calling broadcasts from Shanghai. Almost every time he opened his mouth Tokyo clenched its little fists...
...theater. For eleven years he was headmaster of the American School (for U.S. children) in Berlin. His experiences moved him to write Education for Death, a ghastly, vivid account of Nazi education, which became the movie Hitler's Children (TIME, Jan. 18). He joined station WLW shortly before Alcott...
...night last week Carroll Alcott closed his newscast with the remark: "And now you can listen to Gregor Ziemer, the commentator who looks at the world through a spyglass and the Encyclopedia Britannica...
After Ziemer's broadcast the pair met in WLW's handsome new studio building and, according to Alcott (Ziemer wouldn't talk), the following dialogue occurred...
...Alcott: "Just what I said. You're a phony...