Word: broadcast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About the biggest morale booster to us forgotten men of the Assam Valley was the news broadcast concerning the momentous speech of Sergeant Marion Hargrove [TIME, Dec. 17], ex of the U.S. Army. The chairman was right in calling him a nice young fellow. We feel that he speaks for us out here and for 10,000,000 other nice young fellows throughout the world...
...November Dr. Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize for his researches in atomic physics. He heard about it, he wrote his wife in Germany, from a radio broadcast. To the Nobel Prize Committee he expressed his gratitude and his regret that he could not set a date to receive the prize because of "certain circumstances...
...vacation; the company claimed that his contract didn't expire until 1950. Bing and his business-managing brothers, Larry and Everett, insisted that the contract was technically dead. And until Der Bingle could name his own terms, including the right to transcribe his programs weeks before they are broadcast, he was deter mined to cheese it. Kraft took its grievance to court...
Starting the broadcast half of the program, Koussevitzky gave a Bach snite that could have been conducted by Stokowski. The opening grave was played somewhat slower than is customary, and the dances were speeded up to a tempo at which no one could possibly dance. Ten counter-basses were employed for this piece of chamber music, and a gratuituous repeat was added to the final gigue...
...outstanding, and both he and the station felt lucky. The manager was young (35), shrewd Lieut. Colonel John S. Hayes, who built and bossed the crackajack American Forces Network in Europe. The station was the New York Times' s 10,000-watt WQXR, which devotes 80% of its broadcast day to "the best in music," the rest to frequent news and infrequent commercials...