Word: brainchild
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...native opera ever to be given in the U.S. Put on in condensed, hour-long versions by Manhattan's station WOR in cooperation with the Treasury Department (to boost war bond sales), broadcast by a nationwide Mutual network (Thursdays, 8 to 9 p.m. E.W.T.), the series is a brainchild of Alfred Wallenstein, WOR's ebullient, businesslike music director...
...Brainchild of Miss Lake's press agent, Bernie Kamins, who formerly handled Harvard news for a metropolitan Boston daily, the Tufts challenge, issued by Campus Mayor Jim Phillips, proclaimed Veronica "the ideal of American womanhood...
...proposed frolic is the second event to be run by the Committee this year. A record dance was held on December 6 in the Lower Common Room, but Committee members indicated that their new brainchild would be conducted on a much larger scale, with a well-known local band on hand...
...only a fanatic would have undergone the adversities Williams did until stopped only by physical collapse. His editorial in the final number tells how he and a Columbia classmate raised their brainchild from a simple mimeographed sheet to a trim, well-written magazine, complete with cover, photographs, and a few advertisements. But when his associate dropped out there was no one willing to replace him, even though the project was expanding, and demanding an increasing amount of attention. Williams found himself putting out each issue alone. There were plenty of jazz fans cager to chip in with feature articles...
...National Farm & Home Hour had its small beginnings over Pittsburgh's KDKA in 1923. It was the brainchild of a big, burly studio pianist named Frank Mullen, who was at the time all choked up with nostalgia for the fields of South Dakota where he spent his boyhood. Mullen's system was to read all the farm bulletins he could lay hands on, then whack out a few tunes to fill in. Immediately popular in the Pittsburgh area, the Hour was adapted to NBC specifications in 1926. Since 1928, when the Hour went on a national hookup...