Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rose drapes and beige furniture had transformed the gym into a warmly decorated chamber with seats for 692 and perfect acoustics. Its council table held hidden microphones, its glassed-in balcony a gleaming mass of radio, motion picture and television equipment. It even had a specially built steel ballot box, equipped, against any eventuality, with a padlock...
...Jimmy Byrnes read a warning from Harry Truman: "There can be no home anywhere for the United Nations unless the United Nations remain united." Another American put it more prayerfully; Council attendants were startled to find that someone had already cast a vote in their new steel ballot box. "May God be with every member of the UNO," it said. It was signed by Paul Antonio, the mechanic who made the box...
Under CIANDE, 50% of the broadcast day is devoted to fun; 30% to education, 20% to information. Interviews with "the man in the street" encourage listeners to speak freely. The Truth Box program calls for questions from the radio audience. It not only gets them (450 a day); it also finds how little the Japs were told in wartime. Sample questions: What is the truth about the battle of the Coral Sea? Will you tell us how American forces landed on Saipan and explain the progress of fighting there? What happened to all the fighting ships of the Japanese Navy...
...Gets Slapped (translated from the Russian of Leonid Andreyev by Judith Guthrie; produced by the Theatre Guild) made box office of bewilderment when it was first produced on Broadway 24 years ago. Audiences were seldom quite sure what Andreyev's circus tragedy meant, but it fitted neatly into a culture-crazed era that wore its art on its sleeve. He Who Gets Slapped was unquestionably Slavic, questionably symbolic and flamboyantly gloomy...
Last week, wearing a grown-up black dress and a black mantilla, Philippa sat with queenly poise in a box of Detroit's gold-spangled Masonic Temple Auditorium and heard the Detroit Symphony play her Nocturne before 7,000 schoolchildren. Conductor Valter Poole shrewdly programmed it after Mozart's First Symphony, composed when Mozart was eight. Neither score was great, but both showed great promise...