Word: bbc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last 36 years Coward has been getting impressive applause and profits in almost every other form of show business; he has been a successful playwright, stage & screen star, composer, director, producer, librettist, sometime song-&-dance man. Occasionally he has been a guest on U.S. radio shows. But the BBC normally pays only pittances to its performers, and Noel Coward, a commercial showman to his talented, tapered finger tips, works for no pittance...
...months ago Coward ran into a bright young radioman with a paying plan. Why not transcribe a Coward show, and send it to places where it would pull down handsomer rates than BBC can afford? The notion looked sound: for some months, effervescent, 26-year-old Harry Allen Towers has been cutting transcriptions featuring top British artists. The transcriptions have blank spots for commercials and are distributed to sponsors throughout the Empire...
...trying to get out from behind the eight-ball,* B-B-C has made a big decision : to give up on the present generation of pool players. What could be done about such customers as the New Jersey pool-hall proprietor who promotes lunchtime crap shooting on one of BBC's finest billiard table models, makes $80 a day as his cut before the day's regular billiard business begins? B-B-C is concentrating its crusading efforts on 300,000 Boys' Club members and sending experts like Mosconi, Crane and trick-shot specialist Charlie Peterson...
...first book, at 24, The International Share-Out, caught Editor Crowther's eye in 1938; she has written for his Economist off & on ever since, and is now assistant editor on foreign affairs. On the BBC "Brains Trust" program (the English equivalent of Information Please) Laborite Barbara was one participant who never said "I don't know." Audiences loved her for her quiz-kid memory. Between broadcasts she lectured on politics and economics, labored for the liberal Roman Catholic "Sword of the Spirit" movement...
...anonymous day's work in the Economist's poky offices, over a teashop in the Strand. She is an inveterate, if slightly wistful, operagoer. She lunches and dines with politicians and economists, who admire her intellectual footwork without mistaking her for a heavyweight. She went on the BBC's board of governors last year and had to give up broadcasting...