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With this introduction, CBS began one of the most eloquent and outspoken programs in radio history (An Open Letter to the American People). With no bombast and with a great deal of level, direct statement, CBS told the story of Detroit's recent race riot (TIME, June 28) and told it with the special impact possible in radio. The fact that a major U.S. network had the courage and took the time to emphasize a crisis in race relations was big radio news...
...days after the Italian hand stabbed its French neighbor in the back, three years, ten months and 24 days after the Nazi march into Poland, the Rome-Berlin Axis tottered, and Italy's 46,000,000 war-sick, word-sick, hungry people strained toward an exit from bombardment, bombast and blockade...
...common to radio newscasting. His voice was believable-a happy departure from the standard radio announcer-commentator voice, which suggests that its owner has been thickly padded with heavy cream. The rest is up to Baldwin's listeners. If they like his realism-in contrast to the bombast and theatrics of scores of commentators-he has a new career. If they do not like it, he still has a wide reputation for professional learning, personal acuteness and balance...
...first three weeks on the air, the station (location a military secret) has described United Nations' victories with considerable understatement. It has given Europe all the news of the U.S. coal strike, carefully avoided bombast, name-calling...
...becoming law are poor. It may never be reported out of the Senate's Judiciary Committee. And the same Senate poll-taxers still stand ready to talk it to death as they did last year. The stellar role will probably fall to Mississippi's bantam, big-eared, bombast-loving Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo. Last week he promised to filibuster the bill for 18 months...