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Compared to the tired cheeriness of many disk jockeys, Shepherd's offbeat humor is refreshing. Much of his talk is pure doubletalk, but some is shrewd, if cockeyed, comment from an educated comic (B.A., Maryland U.; M.A. in psychology, Indiana). The greatest thing America has to fear, he avers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Night People | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

Delicacy or Violence. Mastermind of Matinee is volatile, grey-eyed Albert McCleery, 44, an ex-paratrooper who runs his big assembly-line operation as if he were a field marshal. From his studio in a converted Hollywood drugstore, McCleery shuttles from one rehearsal to the next (five go on at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Drama Factory | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

Most of Cott's bombs have produced more whistle than blast. Among them (on radio): a weekly children's newscast by H. V. Kaltenborn ("Good morning! Last week two bad men tried to kill the President of the United States . . ."); short disk-jockey stints by Conductor Leopold Stokowski...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Little Bombs | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

There was plenty to talk about. Communist strategy is fixed and crystal-clear-to win Communist domination of Asia-but Communist tactics are growing more obscure every day. Currently, Communist propaganda is truculent, violent and fanciful. It accuses the U.S. of wrecking the peace talks (broken off by the Reds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEASE-FIRE: Sputtering Out | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

Caddigan solemnly avers that Captain Video, sponsored by Power House Candy Bar and Skippy Peanut Butter, has an educational bent: "It sets up in a child's mind the idea of what electronics can do."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: 7 M.P.S; Zero 3 | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

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