Word: broadcast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fresh daylight on Okinawa. Officers and men of the amphibious fleet were at breakfast when the broadcast told them. By noon the news was known to the men at the front, at the far sharp edge of the world's struggle. With no time for grief, they went on with their work; but there, while they worked, many a soldier wept...
...English-language broadcast from Japan, Premier Admiral Kantaro Suzuki was quoted as saying, "I must admit that Roosevelt's leadership has been very effective and has been responsible for the Americans' advantageous position today. For that reason I can easily understand the great loss his passing means to the American people and my profound sympathy goes to them...
...Blue's Clete Roberts from Rome: "I met an American soldier. He came up to me and said: 'The President is dead. I feel so funny. I've got to talk to somebody.' That was how I learned. . . ." Tchaikovsky & Prayers. As poignant as any broadcast comment was a quiet, all-but-casual account by CBS's John Daly, for four years the net's Presidential announcer, who simply described, a few of the President's personal characteristics as he had known them. NBC's longtime Presidential announcer Carleton D. Smith reminisced...
...Justinian Cardinal Seredi, 60, Roman Catholic Primate of Hungary, Archbishop of Esztergom, who was carried off as a hostage by the Nazis just before the Soviet armies took Budapest; of a heart attack ("where and under what conditions ... it is not yet precisely known," said a Vatican German-language broadcast). As early as 1934 he said, "It is not possible for a Catholic priest to approve Nazi principles, and I decidedly prohibit . . . even a benevolent attitude of any of my priests toward...
...this and a lot more is hung on the sort of story Fred Allen used to contrive for the dramatic half of each week's broadcast: Fred Floogle (Mr. Allen), a Flea Circus Diaghilev, falls heir to his uncle's multimillion fortune, which attorneys have managed to reduce to five chairs and a pool table. By the time Floogle learns that one of the chairs contains a considerable stash of cash, he is heavily in debt and under suspicion of murdering the uncle, and the chairs are all over town. His search for them involves visits...